The Atlanta Hotel (Bangkok)

Opened in 1952 by Dr. Max Henn, the hotel is known for its art deco interior design.

[1] The first owner of The Atlanta, Dr. Max Henn, grew up in Germany and moved to Bangkok in 1947, where he married Mukda Buresbamrungkarn, a Thai aristocrat.

[3][4][5] The first guests of the hotel were a group of American cartographers, who lived in the converted rooms of the then laboratory's top floor.

[6] In the 1960s the hotel frequently housed American soldiers returning from Vietnam; one such military guest was US General Westmoreland.

[1][7] The hotel's swimming pool, opened in 1954 and claimed to be the first in Bangkok, was originally a pit used to hold snakes used in the antivenom making process.