And here was I thinking that free hotel shuttle buses were a new thing. This circa 1910s photo shows the free transport offered by the Occidental Hotel at 438 S Hill Street for guests who were arriving into downtown Los Angeles at the Santa Fe Railway’s La Grande Depot which used to stand between today’s 2nd and 3rd Streets. That’s more than a mile away so I’m sure the guests were happy that the hotel offered this service. Especially with those huge and heavy wheel-less traveling trunks people used to travel with back then.
Ad for Occidental Hotel, Los Angeles in ‘The Grizzly Bear’, November 1912
And here was I thinking that free hotel shuttle buses were a new thing. This circa 1910s photo shows the free transport offered by the Occidental Hotel at 438 S Hill Street for guests who were arriving into downtown Los Angeles at the Santa Fe Railway’s La Grande Depot which used to stand between today’s 2nd and 3rd Streets. That’s more than a mile away so I’m sure the guests were happy that the hotel offered this service. Especially with those huge and heavy wheel-less traveling trunks people used to travel with back then.
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