Towers

Towers was a big new building project in downtown Springfield. I think it was in the early 1990s, but have been so far unable to confirm that. It had two major attractions. There were hotel rooms which you could get by the night or residentially. There was also a restaurant on the top floor that was also simply known as Towers and accessed pretty much exclusively by the elevator. The first link below shows the exterior used for Towers in the late 1990s and a typical hotel room (this one occupied by Ben Warren) which shows their up to date design in the bathroom and generous room size. Personally I would much prefer to stay here than at the Beacon, which became its competition in later years. This particular hotel room was the scene of the Blake rescuing Ben from the tub scenes (beloved of Blen fans) and of Ben’s eventual death.

We saw a lot more of the restaurant than the hotel. If you walk out of the elevators you find yourself on a small landing, a small non-ADA compliant flight of stairs. Straight ahead was a long bar where you could sit and order drinks. It was also the location for pickup for the Towers very popular take out service. Small round tables filled most of the rest of the area. It was in the area with the tables where Danny Santos frequently ate with his mother on neutral ground and where Danny, Michelle, and Ray had their pivotal confrontation about their annulment.

If you came down the stairs from the elevator and turned to the left, there was an alcove with couches. The most interesting conversations took place in this alcove and somebody you know sitting there always meant an extra good scene.

On the far side of the bar was a glass door out to a fairly small balcony surrounded by a solid wall which projected out over Springfield, many floors up. This was the site of some great scenes, including when Beth Raines almost committed suicide, when Ross Marler almost pushed Ben Warren over, and where Sebastian, Holly and Blake threw what Sebastian said were Roger’s ashes over the side as part of a private funeral, fittingly enough a bit of the ash landed in his archenemy, Alan Spaulding’s eye.

In later years, Towers became the first mutual project of Cassie Layne, Danny Santos, and Tony Santos as they entered the urban renewal business. They completely re-did Towers before moving on to the much larger project of renewing all of 5th Street. Towers was altered a final time as they moved into the permanent set era. It became much smaller and the bar was moved to front of the room and our point of view shifted to behind the bar. Tables were at two drastically different levels with a large sheet of windows behind the upper level. This new Towers was the site of things like Billy’s attempt to kidnap Vanessa to get her to marry him and several of Otalia dates.

http://www.youtube.com/user/IIheartbreakerII#p/u/40/REG0DXziRGo
(Ben Warren’s hotel room, starting at 7:10. Ben in his bathroom at beginning and sweep from hallway into bathroom across entire room with Blake, should be a typical room there.)

http://www.youtube.com/user/IIheartbreakerII#p/u/15/IdLBArMjjPQ
(Exterior and hotel room bathroom starting at beginning of Clip and returns at 7:40 for last scene of clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e90GiRx46o&feature=PlayList&p=D1B0506BAFFF0F2C&index=125

(Towers Restaurant, Danny and Michelle sit in the alcove, then pan across restaurant)

http://www.youtube.com/user/IIheartbreakerII#p/u/1/1zuN5OS2d6I

(the balcony at Towers, starting at 7:16)