October 31, 1939

**The Halloween party of October 31, 1939** is a significant date in the story of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

## History

### Background

On this date, a Halloween party was thrown in the Tip Top Club gentleman's club of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, an esteemed establishment in Hollywood. This party would involve many of Hollywood's elite and have performances from the Silver Lake Sisters. Also on this date, the hotel's elevators were inspected by a man named Cadwallader who gave the hotel a licence to operate. Cadwallader was however a malevolent supernatural being equatable to, "the Devil" who likely had a darker presence at the hotel. Another supernatural being present on this date was, "The Narrator", a neutral observer of phenomena regarding the 5th Dimension, AKA, "The Twilight Zone".

### Halloween night

The Halloween party was held in the Tip Top Club as planned and among many celebrities also hosted a manager from *G-Force Records*, the record-label from the neighbouring studio who worked alongside the hotel. In the lobby, four guests boarded an elevator for the 13th floor alongside bellhop, Dewey Todd. The four guests included actor Gilbert London, starlet Carolyn Crosson, child-star Sally Shine, and her nanny Emeline Partridge. At 8:05, a paranormal storm raged outside the hotel causing lightning to strike from the 5th dimension and send those in the elevator plummeting to their deaths on the lobby level.

The lightning resulted in the five becoming ghosts and for the 5th Dimension to be connected to the Hollywood Tower Hotel. The damage from the lightning also caused the elevator-shafts to be scorched off the side of the building and into the Twilight Zone. The events surrounding those in the Tip Top Club is unknown though it is known that the G-Force manager escaped under mysterious circumstances. The hotel was subsequently evacuated and closed by management and/or the authorities until further notice.

### Aftermath

The Hollywood Tower Hotel would become a dark figure, looming over Sunset Boulevard. The disappearances of the hotel were investigated by 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 Narrator would depict the events of that night on an episode of the popular Twilight Zone TV series called, "Tower of Terror" which became a piece of lost-media. Without the hotel, G-Force Records' business struggled for over half of a decade. This was until in the July of 1994 when the hotel mysteriously reopened, staffed by a crew of malevolent bellhops.

## Appearances

### Attractions

#### The Buena Vista Bugle

Various stories in this newspaper have referenced the Hollywood Tower Hotel. 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 unnaccounted 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.

#### Fiddler, Fifer and Practical Café

A poster in this cafe promotes the sisters' performance from this night.

#### Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith

In the attraction's backstory, a G-Force Records manager attended the Tip Top Club this night and the hotel's closure caused the failure of the studio.

## Trivia

* A similar event occurred in the hotel in the January of 1931 when Hollywood's Herman family disappeared in an elevator crash.
* Tower of Terror's counterpart to this date is December 31, 1899.
* The issue of the Buena Vista Bugle which had a story on the events also had a story on the Pacific Electric Railway expanding to Buena Vista Street and Grizzly Peak being named a national park. This would imply that these events happened around the same point in time though also the Buena Vista Bugle is frequently anachronistic and this may just be incidental.

## References

1. ↑ https://disneylandmaps.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/vol-1-iss-1.pdf