"Did You Have to Make the Chair so Large?"

"Ten presidents have signed the guest book, including Theodore Roosevelt, whose bodyguards were still nervous after the assassination of his predecessor, William McKinley. During Roosevelt's visit, the lights in the hotel suddenly went out, and when Miller came running to see what was wrong, he found Roosevelt lying on the ground for his own protection, ringed by guards, docent Mel Gutierrez said."

In the Los Angeles Times, Steve Harvey visits Riverside's Mission Inn, which dates back to 1876.