What Are Downtown's Oddest Building Amenities?

We have 2 racquetball courts in our building (The Skyline).

My guess is that the business centers are geared toward students. This way they can print their term papers without going to the library or an on campus computer center or so they have their group project meetings close to home.

Our building includes an amusement ride very reminiscent of the Hollywood Tower of Terror at Disney's California Adventure -- except ours is free with monthly rent and there is never a line. Oh shucks! Erica just reminded me those are our building's real elevators...

LAofAnaheim: when i first moved downtown, it was to the skyline - lived there for five years. i never used the racquetball courts or ever saw anyone using them, but the steam room and sauna were always being used. is it still there?

when i lived at the alexandria hotel, the security guards would walk me to my front door at night. also, $5 hand jobs were available in the 8th floor stairwell from cheryl the coke whore and you could buy meat from a guy on the elevator. of course, this was before ralph's triumphant return to downtown.

Nobody used the racquetball courts......until I moved in. Yes, I've created quite the racquetball crowd in the Skyline. We play a few nights a week, the security is aware of us, and the building is getting to know about it.

I haven't seen the steam room or sauna used though. Maybe its all cyclical.

Metro417 has a free, sit-down, old-school video arcade machine with two or three dozen games, including Ms. Pacman, Galaga, Frogger and Zaxxon.

And Donkey Kong! The security guy catches me playing it while I'm supposed to be working out in the gym.

We have twin fireplaces on the roof.

Wait, I have to tell you a story about when Alex and I lived at Santee Court - It's not a pretty story so dog lovers out there, cover your ears/eyes.

The roof top was a popular place, with folks who had dogs because people would let their dogs do their business on the putting green. By the basketball court there was a fenced off area, loaded up with gravel. Initially people would open up the gate to let their dogs run around in the gravel area. I saw this happen a couple of times, and didn't think a thing about it. (We don't have a dog, so I didn't really think about the full consequences)

The building has a cored out center, allowing for a very large lightwell, which opens at the bottom. Our place, at the time, looked out to the lightwell.

One night I was making dinner, had the shades and window open, when I heard dogs up on the roof. You could tell someone was throwing a tennis ball around. Sadly, when a tennis ball was thrown down the light well...two small dogs followed the ball to their demise. :-( It was a sad night.

Two weeks (not the next day) later, a padlock went up on the gate. The couple who lost their dogs complained to the building management that the gate should have been locked in the first place (like seeing the Do Not Enter sign wasn't enough); and complained that security should have warned them it was dangerous to let their dogs run around on the roof of a cored-out building.

Naturally, I get really freaked out when I see unleashed dogs on the roof of a building.

@Ginny-Marie: That is a f*cked up story! My dog is really smart and all but I would never let her run around on a roof! Sometimes I am totally baffled by other dog owners and what they think is a good idea.