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Title: Bungalows at the Ambassador Hotel
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Leonard, Gary
Date Created and/or Issued: 2004
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: Once the home-away-from-home for actors, rock stars, dignitaries, and numerous celebrities, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rudolph Valentino and Albert Einstein. The Ambassador opened in 1921 on the site of a former dairy farm. Renowned architect Myron Hunt designed the massive 500-room hotel. It occupied 23.7 acres at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, bordered by Wilshire Boulevard, 8th Street, Catalina Street, and nearly to Mariposa Avenue. The landmark hotel was demolished between late 2005 and early 2006.
View of the famed hotel's huge two-story bungalows. Photo dated September 8, 2004.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :color
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063175
Gary Leonard Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b36_f2_i16
CARL0000067969
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/118995
Subject: Ambassador Hotel
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Bungalows--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Gary Leonard Collection photographs
Hunt, Myron,1868-1952

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