Worse yet, the Cecil Hotel ultimately earned a reputation for violence and death. The once beautiful hotel soon gained a reputation as a meeting place for junkies, runaways, and criminals. Soon enough, the area surrounding the Cecil Hotel would be dubbed “Skid Row” and become home to thousands of homeless people. Just two years after the Cecil Hotel opened, the world was thrown into the Great Depression - and Los Angeles was not immune to the economic collapse.

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