Hotel Figueroa Travel Weekly – For a 92-year-old hotel, Hotel Figueroa is very “on trend,” as marketers like to say. It was built by Y.W.C.A. as an all-female hostel—where single women, including aspiring actresses, can stay without fear of the world’s Harvey Weinsteins. Figueroa is said to have even given the United States its first female hotel manager: Maude Bouldin, a female motorcyclist. Faced with mounting debt a few years after opening, the 14-story hotel has had to abandon its single-gender focus. Then the prolonged deterioration of downtown Los Angeles took its toll. By 2014, when new owners began a … Read the rest