Re: Barbary Coast Hoyt Hotel - "Restroom"
Author: KRK
Date: 12-05-2013 - 09:43
I'm sorry--but I just HAD to post this item regarding the "facilities" at the famous Hoyt Hotel.
I'm sure that our own 'Carol Voss' could relate to this because of the number of female visitors that would line up to see the Men's facilities at the famous "Madonna Inn" on US 101 in Calif, especially when the tour buses pulled in!
"Walter Cole, the Portland resident and female impersonator better known as Darcelle XV, recalled the Roaring 20's Room in Sharon Knorr's book, Just Call Me Darcelle. According to Darcelle, the ladies' restroom had a full-time harpist; the men's restroom included a 12-foot (3.7 m) long trough urinal decorated like a rock grotto, featuring miniature forest animals that served as targets. Darcelle recalled, "[There was also a] life-sized replica of Fidel Castro... If a gentleman could hit that open mouth, lights would flash, sirens would go off and a huge waterfall would flush the entire urinal."[4]
Cheers.
KRK