Ambassador Hotel

The Ambassador Hotel is a hotel in Los Angeles, California. Location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, the 500-room hotel was the site of the 2nd Academy Awards and 12th Academy Awards. Located at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, between Catalina Street and Mariposa Avenue in the center of the Los Angeles Mid-Wilshire district, the 23.7 acre hotel began operation formally on January 1, 1921. Designed by Pasadena architect Myron Hunt, the Ambassador Hotel is frequented by celebrities, with some residing there. From 1930 to 1943, six Academy Awards ceremonies were performed at the hotel. Perhaps as many as seven U.S. Presidents stayed at The Ambassador Hotel, from Hoover to Nixon, along with chiefs of state from around the world. For decades, the hotel's famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub has hosted well-known entertainers, such as Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Martin and Lewis, Dorothy Dandridge, Vikki Carr, Evelyn Knight, Vivian Vance, Dick Haymes, Sergio Franchi, Perry Como, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Sammy Davis Jr., Liberace, Natalie Cole, and Miles Davis.

= See also

• Wikipedia article on the "real" Ambassador Hotel, which was quite obviously cursed, definitely haunted, and no longer exists.