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Order Number
00104792
Title
Ambassador
Hotel
,
auction
items
Photographer
Leonard, Gary.
Collection ID
Gary Leonard Collection
Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession
GPC_b43_f4_i44
Date
2005
Physical Description
1
photographic
print:col
.
;13
x
18
cm
.
Notes
Title supplied
by
cataloger
.
Description
The
Ambassador
Hotel
,
designed
by
renowned
architect
Myron
Hunt
,
opened
its
doors
in
1921
. The
massive
500-room
hotel
occupied
23.7
acres
at
3400
Wilshire
Boulevard
,
bordered
by
Wilshire
Boulevard
,
8th
Street
,
Catalina
Street
, and
nearly
to
Mariposa
Avenue
. The
Schine
family
owned
it
for
about
50
years
,
until
its
doors
were
closed
after
68
years
of
service
in
1989
,
selling
for
$64
million
. A
public
auction
was
held
in
September
of
2005
to
sell
off
as
many
items
as
it
could
.
Seen
here are:
sofas
,
guest
logs
,
tables
,
chairs
, and
against
the
back
fence
,
even
doors
panels
. The
Ambassador
sits
majestically
in the
background
;
it
was
demolished
between
late
2005
and
early
2006
.
Photograph
dated
September
10
,
2005
.
Subject
Ambassador Hotel.
Auctions--California--Los Angeles.
Hotels--California--Los Angeles.
Furniture--California--Los Angeles.
Abandoned buildings--California--Los Angeles.
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles.
Gary Leonard Collection photographs.
Hunt, Myron,1868-1952.
Format
Photographic prints
Reproduction Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at
http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html
for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
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