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Title: Ambassador Hotel, panoramic view
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Leonard, Gary
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This photo shows the Cocoanut Grove nightclub entrance on one side of the Ambassador Hotel. Designed by renowned architect Myron Hunt, it opened its doors in 1921. The massive 500-room hotel occupied 23.7 acres at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, bordered by Wilshire, 8th, Catalina, and nearly to Mariposa. Its doors were finally closed after 68 years of service in 1989, selling for $64 million. Slated for demolition and surrounded by a chain-link fence, the landmark hotel was leveled between late 2005 and early 2006. Photo dated: November 2, 2005.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :color
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064266
Gary Leonard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b36_f2_i7
CARL0000069115
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/119142
Subject: Ambassador Hotel
Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Nightclubs--California--Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Gary Leonard Collection photographs
Hunt, Myron,1868-1952

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