The entrance was in an L, up marble steps, through a Moorish archway and over a lobby that was too big and a carpet that was too blue. Blue Ali Baba oil jars were dotted around, big enough to keep tigers in. There was a desk and a night clerk with one of those moustaches that gets stuck under your fingernail.
Raymond Chandler
Lady in the Lake
1943
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Jim McHugh
The Bryson Building, LA
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