He was employed as a bellboy.
There is no reception desk, lobby or bellboys.
Bellboy was the first commercial system for personal paging.
This employee traditionally was a boy or adolescent male, hence the term "bellboy".
The outdoor glass elevator, reportedly a bellboy's idea, was the world's first in 1956.
Along the way, he had to endure a stream of insults of clerks, bellboys, attendants, cops, and strangers in passing cars.
For years the hotel was kept intentionally primitive, offering neither bellboys nor indoor bathrooms.
He is often dressed in a traditional red or blue bellboy's costume with polished buttons down his front and a pillbox hat.