'The largest and most pretentious in the country' the Los Angeles Times declared in this April 9, 1924 article on the opening of 'The Gaylord, the newest apartment-house in Los Angeles.'
There is just one item in the article that I am trying to figure out, 'the billiard-room in the basement.' I know where the commissary, linen room, kitchen, barber shop, beauty salon and servants' quarters were all located in the basement, but it is the billiard-room that is a mystery. Is there a secret chamber somewhere that has been sealed over or was this room just a part of a sales pitch? All of the rooms seem to be accounted for in the basement. This may be one of those few details that gets lost in the passing of time.