The Library at the Hollywood Tower Hotel was at one time a popular spot to relax with a good book or engage in an intellectual conversation. Today, like the rest of the hotel, the Library is abandoned. Anyone who may have visited the Library in the 1930s, though, would perhaps notice some differences were they to return today.
Amongst the original collection, mysterious new objects have appeared, as if from another dimension. A dimension of sight. A dimension of sound. A dimension of mind. These objects have crossed over from... The Twilight Zone.
All around the room are props (reproductions actually) from iconic episodes of "The Twilight Zone" television series which formed the inspiration for the Tower of Terror attraction. For example, atop one shelf is the Mystic Seer fortune telling machine from the episode "Nick of Time," starring William Shatner:
Laying down on the edge of the bookcase between these chairs is the alien tome from "To Serve Man," which turned out not to be a guide to benevolent behavior, but rather a cookbook.
The final out-of-place object in the Library is this television. While television sets were commercially available as early at the late-30s (the 1936 Olympics in Berlin were broadcast on TV), they most certainly would not have had screens this large. This set is more representative of the period in which "The Twilight Zone" series aired (1959-1964), but it works for the purpose of allowing our host Rod Serling to address everyone in the room.
"Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a maintenance service elevator, still in operation, waiting for you. We invite you if you dare to step aboard, because in tonight's episode you are the star, and this elevator travels directly to... The Twilight Zone."
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