As a newspaper boy, I delivered the Herald Express and the Hollywood Citizen News to the Shelton. Many of the older apartment buildings, such as the Mayfair, the McAvoy and the Green Apartments (where Carol Burnett lived with her grandmother) on Wilcox allowed the delivery boys to drop off their papers upstairs at the front doors to the apartments. The Shelton and the Lido did not allow newspaper boys above the lobby. We had to drop off all the papers with the desk clerk. The Shelton was not seedy, but it was no longer the good address it had once been. The old elevators, many of which are still in use (such as the ones at the El Royale on Rossmore and the Chancellor on Cherokee and the La Leyenda on Whitley) had the heavy front door and a collapsible gate that had to be pulled aside to enter. Inside you punched a button to take you to the desired floor. The motor would start up and the elevator began to shake and groan into activity. Anyone who has been in those elevators will ever forget the experience.
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QUOTE=Joe Gillis;5705512]Thanks for the welcome, Vicuna it is!
Anyone here know of the Suicide Hotel in Central Hollywood?
Until 1987 at 1735 N Wilcox stood the Shelton Apartments
Google Street View
It was in this original building that 2 faded stars took their own lives
First up it was Jenny Dolly of 'The Dolly Sisters'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Sisters
http://www.lbi.org/
She and her sister were two of the most beautiful women in the world, Jenny was said to be the only woman to break the bank at Monte Carlo!!
However in 1933 Jenny was disfigured in a car accident and sank into depression, she finally hung herself at The Shelton in 1941
21 Years later and the Shelton was the scene of another celebrity suicide, Clara Blandick, better known to most as Auntie Em from The Wizard of Oz
http://www.jgdb.com/oz.htm
Clara dressed herself in an elegant gown, primped her hair, checked her make up, lay down, drew a blanket over herself and slipped a plastic bag over her head
Sad end two these 2 ladies lives and now the Shelton is long gone too
Heres a not very good shot of The Shelton
The Lido Apts are visible in this and the modern shot[/QUOTE]