The Ambassador Hote l was located on Wilshire Boulevard and was an imposing Mediterranean Revival structure built in 1921. Before I even moved to Los Angeles I had heard of this amazing hotel. It was the place where Hollywood legends from the 20's through the 70's danced the night away and where sadly, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 after having given a victory speech. The history at the Ambassador is rich. Besides its 600 hotel rooms and 76 bungalows, the hotel had 37 shops, a private school, golf course, bowling alley, theater and the city's very first nightclub, the Zinnia Grill . With the impending demolition of one of LA's most historic buildings, I quickly put together a photo shoot so that I could tour the hotel since it had been closed to the pubic for many years and I had never been inside. It was 2004 and I was shooting fashion layouts for the LA Weekly at the time when I came up with the idea to rent the location. I enlisted a few s...
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