Let's hope tourists have a killer time on 'Hotel Horrors' tour
latimes.com
Just what the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau needs: Esotouric bus tour company's historic expedition through L.A. on Sept. 8 is titled, "Hotel Horrors."
The 90-minute, $25 bus adventure will savor bad deeds done in such venues as the Alexandria, Rosslyn and Cecil hotels; the latter was the sometime home of serial killer Richard "Night Stalker" Ramirez.
Included will be the tale of the unfortunate chocolate salesman from San Francisco who was at a party, sitting on a window ledge with another man, at the Hayward Hotel one December night in 1929.
Someone told a joke, The Times reported the next day, and the two men "laughed heartily at the pun. And then a shrill scream broke the stillness of the night as they lost their balance and plunged backward through the darkness of an air shaft and seven stories to their death."
I hope the partygoers had the good taste afterward not to steal the salesman's chocolates.
