Hotel Clermont Atlanta, by Oliver

This guide to the Hotel Clermont Atlanta, by Oliver, follows one room front desk staff still get asked for by name: room two sixteen, rented for months in the early nineteen nineties by punk rocker G G Allin. It traces darker hotel lore, including an unconfirmed shooting in another room, through decades when office workers, addicts and sex workers filled the floors above a basement lounge that never closed. The December two thousand nine health-department shutdown emptied the building so fast that paperwork was left scattered across the front desk, as if the staff had only stepped out for an hour.