Do you know the true history of the Cecil Hotel? It is known as one of the most known and feared locations in downtown Los Angeles. The hotel is so scary that it inspired several documentaries, movies, and shows. The Cecil Hotel is infamous for its dark past, eerie events, mysterious deaths, and the infamous case of Elisa Lam. The original plans of the hotel were based on one particular type of visitor. The hotel was built nearly one hundred years ago with a specific kind of person in mind. The Cecil Hotel was intended for businessmen and high-class society people to stay in (Sarena & Kuroski 2023). Whether they were traveling or on business, they were welcomed into the hotel. The building was astounding with nineteen floors and seven hundred rooms, it was one of the largest hotels ever seen during the 1900s …show more content…
According to Katie Serena and John Kuroski, “The alleys and streets surrounding the Cecil would soon be known as ‘Skid Row’ and become home to many homeless.” The hotel became a cheap location for residents to stay and a hot spot for criminals to hide. It was a cheap place to lay low for many criminals, and even murderers. During his spree, murderer Richard Ramirez stayed in a room at the top of the hotel. Richard is a well-known serial killer who killed many and is famously known as “The Night Stalker.” Another killer that stayed there was Jack Unterwager, some people say he stayed there because Ramirez had (Sarena & Kuroski 2023). The Cecil Hotel is prone to many fatal incidents, occurrences, and notable things that gave it its horrid reputation. In 1994, a young woman, Dorothy Jean Purcell, threw her baby out of the bathroom window and killed her newborn baby. She said she had no idea she was pregnant until she had the baby in the hotel’s toilet. She stated that she thought the baby was born dead, so she threw it out of the window and onto the next-door building's
The beautiful and luxurious Hotel Vendome was constructed in the Back Bay area of Boston, Massachusetts in 1871. It was constructed on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street. This elite hotel was accommodated by presidents and ambassadors and was unique to its time. During 1881 the hotel became even more luxurious and elite when it was expanded and remodeled. Thomas Edison even visited and electric lights were installed and inspected, making Hotel Vendome the most modernized hotel in the country. It was constructed of “brick arches, steel beams, and masonry walls with slate covering the mansard roofs to prevent flying firebrands from spreading fire from one building to another” (Mochen 2012). This solid outstanding building endured a very rough period between 1968 and 1971. This structure endured 6 fires during these 3 years, causing the Public Safety Department and licensing division of Massachusetts to pull the occupancy permits due to life safety risks. At the end of the year in 1971, however, a new owner was issued a permit to begin to transform Hotel Vendome into 124 residential apartments and a shopping mall. Later that same afternoon, the new owner opened the basement area to serve as a café while the rest of the structure began the new renovation.
My group previously visited the Sheraton Hotel for our first interview with the front desk manager and it went very well. We decided to keep with the same hotel for our next interview, but due to a last-minute cancellation from the housekeeping manager we were not able to complete the interview. Due to this situation, I will be talking about a whole different hotel - G6 Hospitality. The name G6 Hospitality refers to the hotel brands – Motel 6 and Studio 6. I chose to G6 Hospitality because it is a well-known company that I wanted to know about more in-depth. From all my research, I have gained a lot of insight on what G6 Hospitality is all about.
Because the hotel was designed by Mudgett and not by a professional architect, the construction of the building would be deemed unsafe by inspectors out of pure lack of architectural knowledge; the building would be found to have many hazards to the customers, both intentional and unintentional. His building would have needed to be inspected before it could be used for commercial purposes and would have had a very hard time passing the inspection, thus preventing or at the least delaying it’s opening. The inspectors of the building would have found gas lines running throughout the structure and would have adamantly rejected the commercial use of the building due to its odd safety hazards. Inspectors of the building would also be wary of the surgical tables in an office with no reason behind medical accommodations in a hotel, only deepening their suspicions and increasing the likelihood of disapproving of the building’s commercial use. As if that wasn’t enough to warrant concern; the dynamics of the vault would prove inadequate for glass making purposes, the claimed purpose behind the vault. By the end of the inspection, the building would have a number of safety issues that would have to be resolved before it could be opened and the inspection itself would likely result in contact with the police due to the abnormalities inside the
The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez is an infamous serial murderer who terrorized Los Angeles, California in 1985. The media gave him the name the “Night Stalker” when he was on his vicious rampage of forcing himself into the homes of his victims late at night and committing his heinous crimes. Though he was only convicted of thirteen murders, he had many more victims. His crimes were so random, disorganized, and impulsive that the Los Angeles law enforcement officials had no luck finding Ramirez for months as he grew increasingly more violent. (Tripod.com, 2012)
... 1985, the Night Stalker traveled to Sun Valley. As he traveled around, he stopped right in front of the Chainarong and Somkid Khovananth residence. Ramirez discovered Somkid asleep on the couch; though she woke up as he advanced towards her. The killer left the woman on the couch and moved to where her husband slept. The husband died by a bullet through his head. Ramirez also tied up her eight-year-old son. At some point, he took her to the bedroom, and Somkid was raped, sodomized, beaten, and forced to perform oral sex (The People v. Richard Ramirez, 2006). She was taken around the house in order to reveal the locations of valuable items. As soon as Somkid knew he left, she ran to a neighbor’s house. Just like the other crimes, police located Avia shoeprints on the front porch, rear porch, and inside the house (The People v. Richard Ramirez, 2006).
The neighborhood of Lincolnville was established following the Civil War by freed slaves and, is in the oldest city in America, St. Augustine. The settlement was originally called Little Africa, however, in 1878 streets were paved and it became known as Lincolnville after Abraham Lincoln (1). The Lincolnville District is St. Augustine's most well-known black neighborhood and has been a part of many important events in not only African American history, but also St. Augustine and America. Racism and segregation in the South during the late 19th century and early 20th allowed for black businesses to grow and. As the 20th century progressed Lincolnville became an important part of St. Augustine (2). By 1964, the whole world was focused on St.
Event Response Paper The event I chose to attend was The Ringling Museum in Sarasota. The layout was successful and organized by origin and date. The rooms were spacious enough to accommodate large crowds. When I attended it was free museum day and it was at maximum capacity but still aloud plenty of space to view each painting.
These clubs were usually owned by some of the areas most notorious gangsters. Although the parties looked fun it's what you didn't see that lead people to be caught in a web of lies and murder.
It is also rumored that this hotel was one of the last places that the Black Dahlia, who was mentioned in a previous paragraph, was seen (Hunt). In the episode four, Mr. March hosts his annual “Devil’s Night” (“American Horror Story Wiki”). This is a dinner for some of the most famous serial killers. The first to attend is Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who killed seven of her clients in 1989 (“American Horror Story Wiki”). Richard Ramirez, also known as the “Night Stalker,” was a rapist, serial killer, and burglar who terrorized L.A. and San Francisco in 1984 (“American Horror Story Wiki”).
The Hotel industry has become very important in the past years due to immense traveling and growth of international business. Hotel industry not only plays an important role in the life of people but as well as the economy of the country. Development and advancement in the Hotel industry have rapidly been taking place and especially since the rapid change in technology, it is very important for hotels to be promptly keeping up to date. When the hotel industry is spoken of, there are many famous hotels but one hotel company that has been outstanding in growth and other aspects of business, like in Leadership, Teamwork (Employee turnover), Motivation (Customer retention and satisfaction, Goals and objectives, (changing the way hotel business has worked), and Change within the company; structurally inside and physically outside, adding elements, like entertainment, gaming, and outdoor activities, is the Hilton Hotel Company.
The Portman hotel is one of the luxury hotels in the hotel industry. The size of the hotel is relatively small; it has only 348 rooms and 21 floors. The objective of this hotel is to bring Asian hospitality to the US. This hotel is different from other hotel because it offers the services of personal valet and also it had “ no rules for the guests”.
this service company provides a service that is greatly appreciated by local citizens and in
She checked into Hotel Cecil on January 26, 2013 and was scheduled to check out on the thirty-first of January, but the day arrived and she was nowhere to be found. Hotel staff and guests were on the lookout for her, but still no sight of her until a mysterious elevator video was found on the hotel cameras. In the video recorded on February 1, 2013, the day after she was reported missing, Elisa lam was seen in the very confusing and disturbingly creepy video. The video starts with Lam entering and appearing to push most of or all of the buttons on the elevator causing the door to stall. She stands in the corner of the elevator appearing to wait for the doors to close, but nothing happens.
Everyone knows how it feels to wish they could be some else. At some point almost everyone thinks about what it would be like to see things from a different perspective. The internet provides a safe and easy way for people to "try out new identities." It gives people the opportunity to have lives that are completely unconnected to their real identity. Sherry Turkle theorizes in "Cyberspace and Identity" that those who make the most of their online lives approach it in spirit of self-reflection and those who are aware of their online personalities use the internet for personal and social transformations. Alex Pham's "Boy, You Fight Like a Girl" confirms Turkle's theory that cyberspace is used by many people as a means of self reflection as well as for personal and social transformations. Pham's essay provides specific examples of these transformations and reflections. It is clear in her essay certain people discover things online and reflect back on themselves while others transform themselves online to let different sides of their personalities escape and act differently then they ever would in real life.
The Hotel industry has become very important in the past years due to immense traveling and growth of international business. The Hotel industry not only plays an important role in the life of people but as well as the economy of the country. I spent an hour of my day relaxing in the lobby at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami, while on vacation with my family visiting from out of state. It was my first time staying at the resort so I was eager to check it out, after seeing such great reviews on Yelp and hearing great things from friends who have been there in the past. The employees working at the resort were very welcoming, professional and willing to go above and beyond to help their guests. The check-in process was very quick due to having