AlbertC
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Holy crap - even I don't remember it looking so shitty. What was it back then??
I don't have any personal recollections of it back then either. Although I do have a bit more vivid memories of the Gladstone Hotel before their previous restoration.
According to Wiki the Drake Hotel building was a flophouse during the 70s, and then used as a "punk bar and rave den" in the 80 and 90s.
![en.wikipedia.org](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Drake_Hotel.jpg/1200px-Drake_Hotel.jpg)