Incidentally, that picture below is of the Hotel Seville (29th & Mad) before it became the Carlton-Meridian. I lived in the Seville in 1985-86 when it was still a welfare hotel, and had several self-imposed near-death experiences within its walls. Sid Vicious tried to commit suicide there. My friend Christ lived there too. He and I also moved to LA at the same time... I made out of LA alive, he didn't. He was shot in the back of the head by his girlfriend's brother.