That’s a beautiful building! Is there any more info on this? I love old hotel architecture and haven’t come across this one before
ProfessorZhirinovskysays
Sure, I know it. She’s a little past her prime. The kind of seedy digs some Phillip Marlowe-type might stop in to check out a lead, here at this place he used to know so well, a lot of bourbon and an ex-wife ago. He’d flick his cigarette butt aside, and consider that the facade is cracked and worn now, flickering pink in the buggy old neon, the whole hunk of plaster barely hiding a lot of threadbare rugs, outdated plumbing, and ugly secrets. Oh, she used of be the Belle of the Ball alright, years ago, with the silent screen star crowd; Chaplin, Arbuckle, Swanson, even the ghost of the Great Valentino can still be glimpsed in her darker corners if you squint. Parties lasting for days, jazz and jazz cigarettes, bootlegger booze flowing like the Euphrates, sweet young things from Duluth looking for a big break in the pictures but finding out the terrible truth about what it costs to make it in this town. Back in her heyday she was quite a sight. But just as everything else in the City of Angels, when she starts to show her age, when the fresh magic of youth departs, and no amount of paint or makeup can cover the awful truth, well you’re on your own kid. You’re washed up and out to pasture. Bring on the wrecking-ball, the world needs a parking lot.
SuddenStorm1234says
You have just stepped into… The Twilight Zone
Fisher212121says
I heard the decline started when a lightning bolt struck the tower and caused five people – a celebrity couple, a rising child star, her nanny, and a hotel bellhop – to vanish from the elevator
carl_delmarsays
destined for demolition, doomed by location
atxstudentsays
This picture reminds me of the hotel from Pretty Woman, the Beverly Wilshire, except for the gaudy sign on top.
ClassicSpookMovieFan says
That’s a beautiful building! Is there any more info on this? I love old hotel architecture and haven’t come across this one before
ProfessorZhirinovsky says
Sure, I know it. She’s a little past her prime. The kind of seedy digs some Phillip Marlowe-type might stop in to check out a lead, here at this place he used to know so well, a lot of bourbon and an ex-wife ago. He’d flick his cigarette butt aside, and consider that the facade is cracked and worn now, flickering pink in the buggy old neon, the whole hunk of plaster barely hiding a lot of threadbare rugs, outdated plumbing, and ugly secrets. Oh, she used of be the Belle of the Ball alright, years ago, with the silent screen star crowd; Chaplin, Arbuckle, Swanson, even the ghost of the Great Valentino can still be glimpsed in her darker corners if you squint. Parties lasting for days, jazz and jazz cigarettes, bootlegger booze flowing like the Euphrates, sweet young things from Duluth looking for a big break in the pictures but finding out the terrible truth about what it costs to make it in this town. Back in her heyday she was quite a sight. But just as everything else in the City of Angels, when she starts to show her age, when the fresh magic of youth departs, and no amount of paint or makeup can cover the awful truth, well you’re on your own kid. You’re washed up and out to pasture. Bring on the wrecking-ball, the world needs a parking lot.
SuddenStorm1234 says
You have just stepped into… The Twilight Zone
Fisher212121 says
I heard the decline started when a lightning bolt struck the tower and caused five people – a celebrity couple, a rising child star, her nanny, and a hotel bellhop – to vanish from the elevator
carl_delmar says
destined for demolition, doomed by location
atxstudent says
This picture reminds me of the hotel from Pretty Woman, the Beverly Wilshire, except for the gaudy sign on top.
Partigirl says
https://youtu.be/QkPkHv8KnBs
phone_reddit_reader says
Didn’t Angel live there?