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A<modsnip>T does live on the 10th floor..
Article from 2008 (which lends more to my motive theory as well, and shows two of them are good friends).
Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/25/local/me-cecil25/2
Article from 2008 (which lends more to my motive theory as well, and shows two of them are good friends).
A<modsnip>T has lived at the Cecil for 25 years. Unlike M<modsnip>, T<modsnip> said he refused managers' requests to move out of his room on the 10th floor.
His room, which in a typical house would be about the size of the dining room, is packed with belongings, including three 27-inch televisions, each hooked to a VCR. "I watch everything," Taylor said.
Last Christmas, T<modsnip> went back to Texas -- "I gotta see my momma," he said -- one of the few times in the last decade that he has stayed overnight anywhere other than the Cecil. T<modsnip> moved to Los Angeles from Houston in the 1970s when he was diagnosed with leukemia, and thought the weather and doctors would be better in Southern California.
He's been downtown since, mostly unemployed and on disability.
He said that soon after new owners took over the hotel, maintenance crews came to work on some pipes in his room. As they began, T<modsnip> said cockroaches flooded out of a hole in the wall. "Oh yeah," he said, "I've got roaches."
M<modsnip> and T<modsnip> are among 90 to 110 long-term residents -- depending on who is counting -- and both said they are worried about rising rates and eviction.
Read more: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/25/local/me-cecil25/2