"Bonnie and Clyde once stayed here," she says without a hint of doubt in her voice. "I heard it tell that Al Capone had the 'franchise' for whiskey here and his was all you could get. " When bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd once visited the resort city, Ruby Leath says, a stranger forced him into a barroom shoot-out "and he paid for it. " She also said that the building, which was the scene of numerous political rallies, debutante balls, and other social events in the 1920s and 1930s, later offered bootleg booze on the first floor, "pretty ladies" on the second, and blue movies on the third.