What was the first hotel to have Gideon Bibles?

Jon53

Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_International Apr 13 10, 1:15 PM

star_gazer

On Christmas Eve 1968, the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission read from the first part of Genesis during a live television broadcast from lunar orbit. A Japanese correspondent staying at a Houston hotel while covering the mission called NASA Public Affairs to request a copy of the speech that the astronauts were reading. The Public Affairs official asked where he was staying and then told him that if he opened the desk drawer in his room he would find a book and that he should open it to page one. The reporter found the Gideon Bible and later reported that "NASA Public Affairs is very efficient - they had a mission transcript waiting in my hotel room." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_International Apr 13 10, 2:31 PM