June 18, 1969 SILENT Like our Working For You series, this was an Action Report. A viewer called the station saying that a lady was trapped on an upper floor at the St. James Hotel downtown. It turned out to be a false alarm. But the elevator in the old residential hotel was broken. Residents had to take the stairs and many of them were unable to. Some had to move. The manager of the hotel Dallas Mauldin showed TV 8 the inoperative machinery. The 141 room hotel had two elevators--one for freight and the other for passengers, and neither were working. He concluded the tour by saying that plans were in the works to fix the guest elevator. It was eleven stories, built in 1913, and was the tallest building in San Diego then.