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Greens Have Built New Perry Hotel Into
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By Joe Hiett
One of the most well
known and well regarded
motel-hotel- restaurants in
the Southeast is right here
in Perry- "The New Perry
Hotel and Motel"-
operated by Mr. and Mrs.
Yates Green, and Mr and
Mrs. Harold Green. The
southern cuisine has at
tracted tourists from all
*over the world, and several
recipes special to the
restaurant are in demand
nationwide.
Yates and Nannette
Green were newcomers to
Perry on April 1, 1944,
whfen they purchased the
New Perry Hotel from Mr.
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Lowery Seeks Board Post
Custin Ben Lowery, 44, is
seeking election to the
Houston County Board of
Education. Lowery, a
Warner Robins
veterinarian, was ap
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and Mrs. J.J. Rooney. But
the Greens had been here
before, having spent the
second night of their
honeymoon in the hotel
they were to later pur
chase.
Yates Green began his
hotelmotel career
"hopping bell" in 1932 at
the James K. Polk Hotel in
Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
for an uncle. He later
farmed for a year, and
worked at the Baldwin
Hotel in Milledgeville,
Georgia for the huge wage
of 50 cents a day plus room
and board.
Yates Green's professed
pointed to the board in
April 1975 upon the
resignation of long time
member Dr. W.G. Talbert,
Jr.
Ben Lowery has been a
"greatest adventure" was
in 1937 when he married
Nannette Dial of Athens,
Georgia. Nannette began
her career as a swit
chboard operator at the
Holmes Hotel in Athens,
and went from there to
Balsam, North Carolina,
then to the Baldwin Hotel
in Milledgeville. "That's
where we met," she says,
"although I had worked
under Yates' uncle in
Athens."
The Greens' were in
Feeniac Springs, Florida
in 1944 when they learned
that the New Perry Hotel
was for sale. They admit to
resident of Houston County
for 16 years. He has three
children: Ben 17;
Susannah 14; and Johnny
13. Ben, Jr. was a 1976
graduate of Northside
Perry And Hotel Go Together
paying "about $40,000" for
the Hotel, which was
considerably different
from the present facility on
Main Street.
"One of the first things
we added was phones.
Back then the storage
house was where the
swimming pool is now.
We hauled groceries to the
back door of the Hotel in all
types of weather," says
Mrs. Nannette Green.
Another interesting thing
of the past was a chicken
coop where now is located
the beautiful gazebo. A
tulip garden grew at the
site of New Perry Motel, to
High of Warner Robins,
and the two younger
Lowerys attend N.J.H.S.
Lowery is a member ot
First United Methodist
Church in Warner Robins,
and of the Noon Day Op
timists Club.
Talking about the race
for Post Two, he says, "I
am not a politician, and do
not intend to act or sound
like one. I feel I have been
on the board long enough to
know the ropes and can
contribute to a good sue
cessful school program. I
think I am aware of the
needs and problems of
today, and am interested
in the education of
children, both mine and
others."
Dr. Lowery
Card of
Thanks
We want to thank each
and everyone tor your
kind thoughts, for all the
cards, gifts, food, flowers
and especially your
prayers. Every expression
of kindness brought
comfort to us during our
stay in the hospital and at
home. We are so grateful
tor the love ot many
friends.
May God's blessing be
with each ot you.
Mario and Ethel Ellis
the rear of the Hotel.
The Greens' lived "just
off the Hotel dining room
for three years, then built
the apartment in 1947".
They added two extra
baths to make four in the
Hotel, but were almost
devastated by that 1947
tire
"It was on April 7, 1947.
A man in a room on the
third floor noticed the
flames in the attic. The
Fort Valley Fire Depart
ment saved the Hotel.
They had the fire out in 30
minutes. Damage was
done to the roof, and three
rooms," Yates Green
remembers.
Thereupon the Greens'
decided to remodel the
Hotel, and with the help of
the city and county cleaned
up the damage. "Don't
forget J. Meade Tolleson.
He helped out quite a bit
too," says Nannette.
In those days Nannette
was the kitchen supervisor
and Yates was the clerk.
Rom Altman hauled
groceries and relieved at
the desk, and a black man
named Wallace Dixon
worked at night.
The remodeling cost
about SBO,OOO back in 1947.
By 1949 a private dining
room and new kitchen
were built, and the Hotel
had converted from wood
to coal to butane gas.
In 1955 the Hotel was
expanded, with the Motel
being begun. Eight rooms
were constructed then,
with four more being
added in 1957, and another
five in 1959, along with the
swimming pool. "Nannette
and my mother helped
clean every brick and
handpainted the black
ones. The brick came from
an old brewery in Macon,"
says Yates Green.
ELECT
D.K. “Dot” Houghton
Your Sheriff On August 10, 1976
And
I ATTACK DRUG
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DOT ROUGHTON
Obviously, if our young people cannot obtain drugs, they will not be subject to
arrest for drug violations. In the best interest of our youth it is therefore im
perative that special emphasis be placed on eliminating the drug source. This
will not be easy! However, it is of great concern to me and as your Sheriff I will
do everything within my power to insure the apprehension and the prosecution of
the drug supplier to the maximum extent of the law.
YOUR SUPPORT IN THIS IMPORTANT ENDEAVOR IS EARNESTLY
SOLICITED AND WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Curbing drug traffic and thus reducing drug abuse is probably the most dif
ficult task confronting any law enforcement agency. To minimize illegal drug
traffic a Sheriff must use every available resource at his command. This
requires complete cooperation with and utilization of City, State and Federal
Agencies. Moreover, it requires close coordination with other County Sheriff’s
Departments and Task Groups which were organized specifically to attack the
drug problem.
YOUR SUPPORT IN IMPORTANT ENDEAVOR IS
EARNESTLY SOLICITED AND WILL BE GREATLY
APPRECIATED!
That unique gazebo was
"copied from a filling
station in Eatonfon,
Georgia, to get the Chinese
effect" according to Mrs.
Green.
In 1965 the Greens'
changed the columns of the
front of the Hotel. Until
then the columns were
larger and scaled the
height of the motel, as
most long time residents of
Perry well remember.
Two people who are
vital to the operation of the
Hotel and Harold and
Elaine Green. Harold is
Yates Green's brother, and
arrived in Perry about 17
years ago. He is operations
manager of the Hotel.
THE REPUTATION
Through the doors of the
New Perry Hotel have
stepped people from all
over the world, famous and
not so famous. A few years
ago a delegation from Red
China had dinner in the
"coffee shop", and every
Governor in Georgia in the
past few decades has
enjoyed the cuisine.
Other large groups that
have visited the Hotel have
included an editors'
touring group of about fifty
persons, and a group of
food editors from all over
the nation. "As a result the
Hotel was written up in
papers all over the
country," adds Nannette.
The Hotel prides itself on
its repeat business, as do
all motels and hotels.
Many tourists have been
coming to Perry for more
than the 32 years the
facility has been owned by
the Greens.
The Southern food fare
found at the Hotel has been
its trademark, and some of
♦he more famous items
have included shredded
yams, pecan pie, carrot
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salad, Trenton crackers,
and the hot, delicious
soups.
Yates and Nannette
Green have been "Mr and
Mrs. New Perry Hotel" for
32 years now, and both
have "memories that are
cute now, but were not so
funny then." One Nannette
loves to tell is of two young
employees who were told
to "dress" some of the
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turkeys then found in the
chicken coop. They were
somewhat infamillar with
the task, and looking out
the window Nannette saw
several turkeys still
walking around, with all
their feathers pulled off!
The New Perry Hotel-
Motel has long been a part
ot Perry's way of life, and
gives every indication of
remaining that way.