Location 7: Hollywood First National Building

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-once beacon of prosperity

-built 1928, boasted ultra modern finishes for professionals

-was at the highest allowable height at the time

-but promises can be dashes

-how did such a beautiful building become so dilapidated?

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-as with many banks of the era, trouble started in 1930

-First National Trust and Bank struggled

-building changed hands many times, but developers gave up

-building abandoned ever since

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-part of reason it’s empty: rumors around unpleasant entities

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-1930s crash, several notable deaths connected to building

-tragic instance involves investor who lost everything

-office on one of higher floors

-but he didn’t jump

-holed himself up in his office and took his secretary hostage

-police arrived, he wouldn’t release her

-the police messed up the raid, and the investor shot 2 officers before turning the gun on his secretary and himself

-secretary died instantly

-but cops got to him before he successfully shot himself in the head

-ended up blasting off a piece of his own jaw

-lived disfigured for several years in prison hospital

-died of injury complications

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-years following, tenants all over building reported seeing man with half a face roaming

-can see him peering out upper floor windows sometimes

Key Names & Dates

-built 1928

-First National Trust and Bank