From Seattle Times:
Purchase of Plaza Hotel Was Professional Coup
He started out in the hotel business at age 14 in 1942 as an elevator boy at the Cascadian Hotel in Wenatchee, earning $2 a day also doing such jobs as bellman, busboy, night janitor and room clerk. In 1973, at age 46, Harry Mullikin was named president of Western International Hotels (now Westin Hotels & Resorts), leading the then-Seattle-based chain to the opening of such megahotels as the 1,500-room Los Angeles Bonaventure and the 1042-room Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta.
Mr. Mullikin, 84, died April 30 in Tucson of heart and pulmonary diseases. Click here for the full story.