The Hollywood Tower Hotel (Pueblo Deco)

**The Hollywood Tower Hotel (Pueblo Deco)**, is a version of *The Hollywood Tower Hotel*, designed in a Pueblo Deco architecture style. This Tower Hotel design was the one used at *Disney California Adventure,* and *Walt Disney Studios Park* in Paris.

## Description

The Hollywood Tower Hotel is a 13 floor tall Pueblo Deco hotel located at the end of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. While it was once grandiose, the hotel was left in a state of darkness and decay since 1939 and is infamously haunted. In addition to holding several ghosts, the hotel served as a portal between the material world and the 5th Dimension, also known as the Twilight Zone.

## Background

#### Origins

The Hollywood Tower Hotel was planned to be built in the year 1928. On the May 4 of 1927, hotel manager Pete Corrigan gave a press-release to the Buena Vista Bugle promoting the hotel. For unknown reasons, the hotel was not constructed until 1929.

The Hollywood Tower Hotel was built in 1929 and during the golden age of Hollywood it was landmark locale, famous for being the premier hotel to the show business elite. Of the hotel's offerings were the, "Tip Top Club", a grandiose gentleman's club located on the hotel's 13th floor. This gentleman's club would hold performances from popular vaudeville performers Dolly, Dottie and Ethel Bounds, better known as The Silver Lake Sisters.

#### Halloween incident

In 1939, the hotel arranged for a large Halloween party to be thrown on October 31 with a top-tier guest-list including a performance from the Silver Lake Sisters. That night, four guests by the names of Gilbert London, Carolyn Crosson, Sally Shine and Emeline Partridge boarded one of the elevators in the lobby with a bellhop named Dewey Todd. At 8:05, the hotel's elevator shafts were struck by paranormal lightning originating from the 5th Dimension once again plunging the elevators and their passengers down. The lightning demolished the wings which held the elevator shafts leaving a black scotch across the side of the hotel while those five who were inside became ghosts bound to the hotel.

#### Closure and Abandonment

The Hollywood Tower Hotel was subsequently evacuated, shut down and left in a state of decay. The missing persons incident which occurred in the hotel was investigated by police officer Calvin Blue of the Los Angeles Police Department. When interviewed, Blue expressed that he believed those missing were perfectly fine and would be rewarded when found. Needless to say, Officer Blue was incorrect in his assessment.

The hotel was left abandoned for decades. All the while, the hotel continued to be haunted by its five victims while further being absorbed into the 5th Dimension and becoming a sort of portal to the realm. Some reports and photographs of the spirits haunting the hotel accumulated over the years. On one anniversary of the 1939 Halloween, the hotel was investigated by ghost-hunters or, "Spectrologists" on a night when meteorologists predicted higher air-pressures, likely foreshadowing another storm.

#### Reopening

At some point between 1994 and 2004, the hotel mysteriously reopened with a crew of unnatural if not outright malevolent bellhops who seemed frozen in the 1930s and wished to bring new guests into the 5th Dimension. The bellhops would go about this by utilizing the maintenance service-elevators in the boiler room of the hotel rather than the decommissioned elevators in the lobby.

On at least one incident, a group of would-be-victims were encountered by a being from the 5th Dimension known as, "The Narrator" who informed them of the hotel's past and nature allowing at least some of them to escape a dark fate. On another incident, the three Silver Lake Sisters would reappear in the lobby of the hotel having not aged a day. The three were seemingly unaware that it was not the Halloween of 1939 and performed for guests along with help from their affiliate, "Joe".

## Appearances

### Buena Vista Street

#### The Buena Vista Bugle

An of the Buena Vista Cugle has an article titled, "Lightning Strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel". The bugle mentions all the guests being evacuated while five people are still unaccounted for, the police officer on the case being one Calvin Blue and it seeming as if the hotel was chosen to be struck by lightning. Other stories referencing the hotel include, "Ghost Hunters Materialize at the Hollywood Tower Hotel" which featured a picture of the hotel's ghosts,, "Fall's Top Fall", and, "Top Four Fall Favourites"; all of which stories were set after the Halloween incident of 1939.

#### Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe

There are two posters hung up in this cafe advertising the Silver Lake Sisters' performances in the Hollywood Tower Hotel. One of the posters is for the Halloween party of 1939 when lightning struck the building.

#### Julius Katz & Sons

Anthony Fremont's orchestra can be heard being played from the Tip Top Club of the Hollywood Tower Hotel over the radio.

#### Mortimer's Market

At Mortimer's Market, a copy of the Buena Vista Bugle from May 4, 1927 can be found with the headline, "Hollywood Tower Hotel set to open next year". The front-page shows the Hollywood Tower Hotel sign being lifted onto the hotel while under construction with the tag-line, "Promises to be a star in its own right!", referencing the Narrator's dialogue from the attraction.

#### Oswald's

Anthony Fremont's orchestra can be heard being played from the Tip Top Club of the Hollywood Tower Hotel over the radio.

### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

In the Collector's fortress office in this attraction are a bookmark and bellhop's hat with the Hollywood Tower Hotel logo on them. Additionally, there is a portrait of Napoleon III from the Hollywood Tower Hotel within the backstage, Gantry Lift area of the fortress.

### Red Car Trolley

The Pacific Electric Railway had a stop at the hotel and advertisements for the hotel inside of their trollies.

### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Hollywood Tower Hotel was setting for this attraction.

## Behind the scenes

The background story for the Pueblo Deco Hollywood Tower differs from the Neo-Mediterranean Tower such as the Pueblo Deco Tower having said to have opened in 1929, verses 1917 with the Neo-Mediterranean. It is likely that due to the attraction's closure, much of its independent lore in the Tower of Terror mythos has been retconned and/or absorbed by its sister locations in Walt Disney World and Disneyland Paris.

## Trivia

* In a video for Youtube shorts on the Disneyland Paris YouTube account, a bellhop described the artifacts as coming from the hotel's owner, described as, "Un grande voyageur" (a great traveller).

## References

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