i miss the ambassador hotel, which i never actually knew, and resent the green-glowing monstrosity that has taken its place. i wish there could have been a revival, where i would spend all my nights, steps from my apartment, in the restored cocoanut grove, where judy garland at the grove was recorded.
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I found your blog through Kate's a the Gap Year, and I've spent the past hour having a marvelous time reading (hope you don't mind). I fell in love with your title and then how you manage to make your entries ridiculously fascinating.
i love kate. thank you, you flatter me too much. i'm just some kid.
Indeed the Ambassador Hotel in general, and Coconut Grove in particular, must have been a truly magical place. I swear that if the building was still standing I'd make a trip all the way out to LA from the East Coast just to see it. They just don't build them like that anymore.
the building was beautiful and the list of its residents truly impressive. i live about twenty footsteps from the site of the former ambassador. unfortunately, it was already boarded up and in various states of disarray when i moved in to my place of residence. there is now a very ugly los angeles public school in its place.
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