the Cecil hotel is located in Los Angeles, California. it opened in 1927. The good times of the Roaring 20s were short-lived. In October 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed, signaling the start of the Great Depression . While the Cecil held onto its glamorous appeal through the 1940s, the bright lights of the surrounding neighborhood dimmed, and poverty set in. Main Street, where the hotel stands, became known as Skid Row. In the years that followed the hotel fell on hard times. The first of many suicides to occur at the Cecil happened in November 1931, when 46-year-old W.K. Norton, who checked in as James Willys. After getting his room, the man took a large amount of poison pills and ended his life. Roughly a year later, 25-year-old Benjamin Dodich checked into the hotel, concealing a gun in his belongings. When a maid went to go clean the room on September 17, 1932, Dodich was found dead with a self-inflicted gun wound in his head. In 1934, 53-year-old former Army Med
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