VACANCY

Rosslyn

HOTELS

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES

With GARDEN SUN ROOF and Auto Drive-In Lobby HOTELS CONNECTED BY MARBLE SUBWAY

    I wonder exactly what an Auto Drive-In Lobby is or looks like, any ideas?
The marble Subway and Garden sun roof sound pretty nice.
I just noticed one of the Hotel signs reads ROSSLYN ANNEX.  That doesn't sound very classy does it?

Reposted from SkyscraperPage.com
The Hotel Rosslyn has a history unique in all of the city of Los Angeles.

Once the tallest building in LA, the Rosslyn boasted in it's large rooftop sign as being the "Fireproof Million Dollar Hotel."

It's best years are behind it now, seeing some minor glory in 1987 as the rooftop site of U2's music video for "Where the Streets Have no Name."

Today the Rosslyn is a flop house, with rooms going for $8 a night. The seedy side of downtown Los Angeles lives here now (2003).

                         Notice the original vertical sign is still in place.