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Old Posted Feb 4, 2013, 1:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Lwize View Post
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It's a vacant building. The side doors are heavy metal looking. Sex club? That's the best you can do?
You asked. I was slightly kidding anyway.
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Here is a slide I found earlier today of the Biltmore Hotel and Pershing Square, circa 1950s.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1950s-Commer...item337fb2a548

I wonder what brings that thin elderly man downtown?




I finally found an image of the Rendezvouz Club located within the Biltmore Hotel. I've been looking for quite some time.


http://www.cardcow.com/

I've often wondered if this was where Elizabeth Short was going that afternoon before she disappeared.
If I remember correctly she was observed using a pay phone. Were they located near the Rendezvouz Club?




billed as "the night club in the afternoon". (as in, before you go home to your spouse)
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below: A Biltmore Hotel key tag from an earlier era.


ebay



reverse

I should have bought this. It's beautiful.

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