De Anza Hotel

TsutchiEsMaximus · Posted: 24 Aug 2005 07:29 AM Post subject: De Anza Hotel

is there any complete history on the de anza hotel...old secrets. facts. or jsut whatever?....?...

realneo · Posted: 24 Aug 2005 07:45 PM Post subject:

i heard it's haunted. good source

blackmountain74 · Gots My GED Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 118

I don't know if there is a complete history on the hotel or not. I know there are old school Calexicans like Mrs. De Nocochea who probably know more about it than anybody and somebody should try to write a history on it.
I can say that I worked out of an office there for a couple years right after it was reopened as a senior apartment complex and got to go on a few tours of the basement. It was a trip. The stuff down there, if it is still there, would blow your mind.
When the management company took over --- Chelsea --- they removed all the old cool stuff from the hotel like furniture and front desk equipment, stuff that was 60 or 70 years old, and just buried it in the basement. It was kind of sad because there was a lot of historical memorabilia that no one will probably ever get to see because its all privately owned now.
I remember some guy showing me this little holding cell where people would get thrown in when they acted up. The place was frequented by movie stars and other high profile guests in the 30s, 40s and 50s. During Prohibition, people would come to the De Anza and stay, head down to Mexicali to drink and gamble, then come back to the hotel.

locoinclx · Posted: 24 Aug 2005 10:46 PM Post subject:

Yeah I hope that they end up making the de anza hotel a historical landmark so that they cant move historical artifacts from it anymore... but ohh well...

I think the whole history of calexico should be looked into.. but sadly no one has enough funds to get a project like that going... I wish i could.. maybe one day in the future... all i got to say is that I look forward to the 100th aniversary of CLX!!!

451PC · Posted: 01 Oct 2005 06:52 PM Post subject:

The De Anza Hotel is and will always be a point of interes, by walking in you can actually smell how old that place is. Call it what you may, but the musty, old, moldy smell takes you back, the hotel has a history of murder, suicide and stories of Al Cappone being there during prohibition. There is stories that say that the place was conected to Mexicali with tunnels in order to have the high profile figures move without detection, by looking at the basement that possibility does exist. Some guys, and the current nightwatchman states that the place is haunted, we should pull one of those supernatural shows down there.See what we find... Twisted Evil

Asesino Koolarrow · Posted: 11 Oct 2005 10:05 PM Post subject: