September 2015 - CBS News: Demolition crews recently cleared away what was once the informal headquarters for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary campaigns, the Wayfarer Hotel, in order to make way for an apartment building, a Whole Foods, and a bank.

The Bedford hotel, well beyond its prime, still attracted some reporters and campaign staffers, mostly out of habit, until it closed in 2009.

By 2000, though, the Wayfarer was already showing its age, when then-Vice President Al Gore came through town. His advance team, alarmed by the musty odor that pervaded the room, was forced to make an emergency run to CVS for an armful of air fresheners.

Some longtime journalists remember what it was like in its heyday, though. "It was like Rick's in Casablanca," said former CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer. "Everybody comes to Rick's. And that's the way it used to be at the Wayfarer. You could just walk in, sit at the bar, and just stay there and everybody eventually came through there and they came mostly every night and stayed through the night."