Welcome back to the Dark Hotel. Now that the police have left,
it seems o.k. to open the doors again. As returning visitors already know --
and first time visitors are about to find out -- The Dark Hotel is one of
San Francisco's most legendary resident's hotels now sadly gone to seed.
In San Francisco, the Dark Hotel has been where the action
has been at ever since Elfro Jefferson -- California's first Afro-American
millionaire -- first launched this concern in a blaze of gunfire back in the
Edwardian dawn of 1893. For more background information the visitor is invited
to visit Hotel History, and the Previous Stories Index, as well as all of
the links to be found at the bottom of this page.
As this new season begins we find Drago Drugilovic, our beloved
Night Manager and perhaps the darkest in a long line of American dark
horse Presidential candidates, strung out on heroin again, alas, inside
a tacky men's room somewhere near Cleveland, Ohio. How could this
happen to the most promising figure to come along in American politics
in a long, long time, you might wonder? Have you been paying
close attention to the NASDAQ lately? Never mind. As this final installment
of our election year saga, The Big Dream, concludes, to say that
there are still more surprises in store for Drago may be the understatement
of the year. So , come on in. Whatever you do: remember to chew your food.
Life will never again be the same. Consider that a warning.
-- The Management
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