graybar hotel
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graybar hotel
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Referring to the gray metal bars of a cell. It may have originally referred to the main jail facility in downtown Los Angeles, California; some inmates who were ashamed of admitting that they were in jail would tell friends and relatives who were out of town and that they were staying at the Graybar Hotel. Before it was torn down it was so well known that prisoners received mail addressed to the Graybar Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Jail, prison.
Outside his cage were more bars, and, beyond them, narrow steel-bound windows looked out over Los Angeles from the fifteenth floor of the Hall of Justice. The trusties called it the Graybar Hotel, a modern fireproof establishment, with room service.
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title = {graybar hotel},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
