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Speaker 1: Last week, the Omni Parker House hotel downtown toward one

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy years old.

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Speaker 2: The Omni Parker House, which began as simply the Parker

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Speaker 2: House in eighteen fifty five, is the oldest continuously operating

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Speaker 2: hotel in the United States.

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Speaker 1: To learn more, I turned to the person who literally

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Speaker 1: wrote the book on this place, Susan Wilson. She's been

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Speaker 1: the official hotel historian for more than a decade and

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Speaker 1: says Harvey Parker started it first as a restaurant in

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Speaker 1: eighteen thirty two, and then a hotel About twenty years later.

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Speaker 2: He collected four hundred and thirty two dollars and bought

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Speaker 2: Hunt's Cafe.

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Speaker 1: Since then, a who's who of famous literary and political

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Speaker 1: minds of state here for a time. But this place

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Speaker 1: might be most famous for its food, including the Parker

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Speaker 1: House role, a soft, fluffy departure from the bread of

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Speaker 1: the era.

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Speaker 2: There are confirmed cases of food fights at the dining

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Speaker 2: halls at Harvard College, where guys would like throw a

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Speaker 2: loaf of bread at someone else, hit them in the eye,

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Speaker 2: and they would lose their eyesight.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schaffel Debbi Busy, Boston's news radio