Hi Weathtel, I just would like to inform you I just inform other designer that I want to protect my catchphrase in this contest "at Weatherford Hotel" because I come with this first on this contest and LT do have rules regarding ideas protection, you may found this on the bottom of each page under Contest Holder guidelines.
I once again want to share my thought when I come up with that phrase, I could see most of the contestant using either something like 'since 1897' or something implying The Gopher Hole itself is the Hotel,
I found this a bit incorrect message to conveyed, because from what I understand The Gopher Hole is a bar inside the hotel and not the hotel itself, and The Gopher Hole itself is not open from 1897, you are still in renovating process of your basement right now, this basement are going to be future bar, The Gopher Hole.
So that is why I made that phrase and I want to protect that phrase or asked designer concerned to work it out with me if the phrase are going to be used into the final logo.
Once again thank you for your understanding in this matter,
Riza