The lobby: this is what the 1920s looked like. Not people in sleek modern rooms wearing white suits lounging around zinc furniture. This.

As with all these places, such a venue would be high demand today as a boutique hotel - classical style with some modern touches, and it would be the Hot Bar of the Year. If only they'd waited! But when the government's handing out money to tear it down and build unspecified modern things, no one was in a mood to wait.