[Dynagroove] Alexandria Hotel Haunted???

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LADY IN RED.....IS DANCING WITH ME.

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> taken from the net:
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> Alexandria Hotel
>
> 	The Alexandria Hotel opened in Hollywood in 1906 and for many years
> several the restaurant and theater crowds of the surrounding district. It
> became a natural meeting place for the burgeoning film industry and by
> 1910,
> the dining room had become the lunch location of choice for studio heads,
> famous actors and those of Hollywood power. During its heyday, it played
> host to people like Winston Churchill, Enrico Caruso, King Edward VIII and
> American presidents like Taft, Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. It would be
> at
> the Alexandria that D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and
> Douglas Fairbanks would make movie history by announcing the formation of
> their independent company, United Artists.
>
> But Hollywood would not remain so kind to the Alexandria. As Los Angeles
> began to develop in a westerly direction, the hotel was abandoned by the
> stars for the more modern Biltmore and Ambassador Hotels. The Alexandria
> became a just a memory and it fell into silence and disrepair. Then, in
> the
> early 1970's, the hotel was given a multi-million dollar facelift and the
> past began to come alive at the hotel... in more ways that one!
>
>
>
> Nancy Malone and Lisa Mitchell were hired to bring back the flavor of old
> Hollywood to the hotel. They named rooms for the hotel's famous former
> residents and decorated the hallways with portraits of stars and
> photographs
> of Hollywood in its early days. Is it possible that this connection to the
> past helped to awaken the ghosts of the old hotel?
>
> Author Laurie Jacobson interviewed Nancy Malone and she vividly recalled
> her
> first sighting of the hotel's famed "lady in black". Nancy was hanging
> pictures on the wall in a hallway in the early morning hours when she
> spotted a woman dressed all in black and wearing a large black hat. She
> was
> standing at the other end of the hall and began walking away. Nancy
> remarked
> that she could not see through the woman, but that "she wasn't solid
> either". She walked a short distance and then vanished.
>
> Since that time, she continues to be seen, but who is she? Lori Jacobson
> believes that she might be a former resident of the hotel who died while
> in
> mourning for some loved one. "Stricken with grief," the author writes,
> "she
> barely noticed her own passing and continued to grieve for more than
> seventy
> years".
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