Cecil Hotel's Chilling Backstory The Cecil's history is shrouded in scandal and tragedy Built in 1924, the 600room hotel was originally located in a vibrant part of Los Angeles and catered to a middleclass clientele "When the Great Depression hit inSure enough, it turns out that cocreator Ryan Murphy's inspiration came not just from old hotel horror films like The Shining, but also from actual hotels situated in downtown Los Angeles, one in particular, with a long history of sinister events, called Hotel Cecil Like Gaga's Hotel Cortez, The Cecil was once intended to be a glamorousThe end of The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, in an episode titled "The Hard Truth," attempts to confront this reality, providing a glimpse of what the series could have been In the episode
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