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Last Thursday, a friend texted me to tell me that the Standard in Hollywood was permanently shuttering after 22 years on the Sunset Strip. Like most of my friends and enemies, he knew that I carried a torch for this particular hotel.
It was the original boutique hotel. The logo on the outside of the building was upside down. The keycards said, âSlip it in.â The valets wore â90s alternative-rock-style work shirts; they were friendly and a little bit too good-looking. You could relax on the beige Ligne Roset Togo sofa in the lobby while a DJ spun tasteful electronic music and a scantily clad out-of-work actor lazily read a script in the âthe Boxâ behind the front desk. You could eat adequate diner food 24 hours a day; you could float on a pink tube in the tiny pool; you could play ping-pong on blue Astroturf; you could hear the traffic on Sunset at all hours if you got the wrong room; you coul