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Cecil Hotel

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Created on February 23, 2024

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THE CECIL HOTEL

The Hotel's Backstory:

  • 1924, Los Angeles
  • 18 deaths
  • In decline after the 1940s
    • Cause: 1930s' Great Depression
  • 1947: Black Dahlia
  • 1980s: Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker"
  • 1990s: Jack Underweger
  • 2013: New owners : Cecil Hotel became Stain in Main
  • 2013: Elisa Lam case
  • 2017: shutting down of the Hotel

An Iconic Place

Highly inspiring

Centralised criminality

Paranormal

  • Compton, Inglewood, Watts in California
  • Other cities: Indianapolis, Crump Boulevard (Memphis), Baltimore, Altgeld Garden (Chicago)
  • Location, architecture...
  • Superstition? Psychosis?
  • "Magnet for Misfortune"
  • Southern Gothic

Netflix series

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Uses of the Cecile Hotel

Horror culture

Cecil hotel and the medias

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Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker

Do you understand the need people feel to get the closest possible to true crime stories, or even to get in touch with criminals?

- A museum of horrors retracing the history of the hotel? - It should remain closed out of respect for the victims?

What do you think we should do with the part of the hotel that is still closed today?