Ambassador hotel

The bullet fired by Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 ultimately killed not just Robert F. Kennedy but also L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel itself.

I have a little something different for today’s post and I hope you love it as much as I do! Love Old Hollywood glamour and history? Let’s take a virtual fieldtrip to the iconic …

Of all the interior shots I’ve seen of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel, I’ve never seen (or at least noticed) this section seated under a striped canopy. Notice the exotic light fixtures hanging from above – I’m guessing that they were looking to duplicate the feel of a desert tent, much like you see in Valentino’s movie “The Sheik” (from which the Cocoanut Grove took its famous palm trees.) If that’s what they were going for, it works for me!

I want to tell you about the much loved, (and much missed), 'Ambassador Hotel' in Los Angeles. I began researching the hotel, after I read about it, in the mid 1990's. To me, it was, (and still is), fascinating on many levels. Not only was it an abandoned, decaying building, with unique, and beautiful features, but it held so much history, so much mystery, glamour, drama, and ghosts, of an era, long gone. My imagination was set on fire by the place. The hotel opened in December 1929. It…

A time of lavish cars, colorful clothes, and shiny appliances.

The Cocoanut Grove nightclub which was situated at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Blvd. Usually you just see photos of the dance floor and the paper mâché palm trees (brought from the set of Vale…

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The majority of the photos I’ve come across of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel feature crowds of people, especially during its peak years, the 1920s and ‘30s. So it’s nice to see what the place actually looked like without swanky partygoers getting in the way. I do like all that detailing on the walls above those Arabianesque arches, and those black light fixtures that would have been perfect for Rick’s Café Americain in “Casablanca.”