Origin and Etymology of cabaret. French, from Medieval French dialect (Picard or Walloon), from Middle Dutch, alteration of cambret, cameret, from Medieval French dialect (Picard) camberete small room, ultimately from Late Latin camera â more at chamber.
The Stanley inspired horror novelist Stephen King to write The Shining. In 1974, King and his wife Tabitha spent one night in Room 217 while on vacation during their short residency in Boulder, Colorado.
Another favorite location for some of the Stephen King characters in multiple books to be based: Castle Rock, Maine. George Bannerman was the calmly sedate Sheriff of Castle Rock in both The Dead Zone (1979) and Cujo (1981). Unfortunately, his stint as Sheriff in Cujo comes to a rather bloody end.