The Ambassador Hotel DEMOLITION and Tour RFK Assassination

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  • INSIDE THE BUILDING - I was in the last group to tour the legendary Ambassador Hotel and Cocoanut Grove Night Club before it was DEMOLISHED. The Manson Trial Jury, Starsky and Hutch, Charlies Angeles, SWAT, and the movie Bobby!
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  • @jliscorpio
    @jliscorpio 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    I was born and raised in L.A. When the Ambassador closed in 1989 I lived a block away and used to use the Post Office located in the Ambassador. After it closed they had a fixture sale (not the auction you spoke of in the video) it would have been before 1993. I didn't care about the sale itself, a friend and I broke away and toured the entire structure ourselves for hours. Every door was opened. We went through nearly every room, stealing door knobs, stationery out of the drawers, room service menus etc. There were multiple rooms that had clearly not seen redecoration in decades, those were the most interesting to me. We went through the Cocoanut Grove, the Pantry, you name it we saw it. Were we wrong for doing it? Sure. Any regrets? Not a one.

    • @DearlyDepartedTours
      @DearlyDepartedTours  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      This is the greatest. I'm so glad for you (and a bit envious too)!

    • @paulcarlsen4088
      @paulcarlsen4088 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ? Did you say what happened to the clock? It’s a very cool design!

    • @Wooley689
      @Wooley689 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      No, you were, umm, preserving a piece of history. Yep, that's it preserving.

    • @staceymichaels9530
      @staceymichaels9530 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Glad You were able to tour the place, see some of the original architecture, and save some memories from there. You preserved a bit of history and are good for doing so in my opinion.

    • @loganstroganoff1284
      @loganstroganoff1284 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did you poop in any of the beds?

  • @Bennifm
    @Bennifm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    In Laurel and Hardy's 1933 film "Twice Two", Hardy's wife mentions going to the Ambassador. "Let's go to the Ambassador, where we can get something GOOD to eat!"

  • @Stephenloizos
    @Stephenloizos 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    My wife and I and some friends snuck in the Ambassador in the late 90's one night. We got into the pantry and there was an x where RFK fell.

  • @cookingartguy2170
    @cookingartguy2170 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I felt sick to my stomach watching those clips of the hotel being demolished. I know it was probably an albatross as you said, but can you imagine the business they would do today if they had stayed open? I know I would have stayed there for sure. I just realized something, Marilyn Monroe kind of began her career at The Ambassador, at the Blue Book Modeling Agency that you mentioned. That's really where her first notoriety happened and she began her trajectory. And Bobby Kennedy's career ended there. Interesting.

  • @TarheelTad64
    @TarheelTad64 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Thanks Scott ,I never knew the Manson jurors stayed at The Ambassador .I still can't believe they tore down this landmark

    • @jeffchandler2521
      @jeffchandler2521 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      The sad thing is nothing is sacred anymore.

  • @m.e.c.1007
    @m.e.c.1007 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Thanks for covering this. Sad how fast California is erasing their own history. Nothing of old will be left behind except for your little salvages of these special places.

    • @antonchigurh3794
      @antonchigurh3794 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It is absolutely depressing . I grew up in Redondo in the early 70s. Luckily , the Rocket Ship park that we played at is still there. Although , the elementary school , Parkway is now gone. So much of Hollywood history is gone. I've always wondered what the Hollywood tourist industry is thinking. I guess they want to take people to a spot and say " this is where it used to be ".. I don't get it.

  • @alexbryers9467
    @alexbryers9467 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    So sad that these beautiful historical buildings are just knocked down 😢

  • @denisesmith2745
    @denisesmith2745 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    I love this, Scott. My parents took my brother and my twin sister to California in 1965. We went to the Cocoanut Grove for dinner. Buddy Rich was performing and called out to my twin and I. He said, “hey twins! Come on the stage and shake it up”. We didn’t and I regret that.

  • @danahsutton101
    @danahsutton101 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    We saw RFK give a speech at the Foreign Mall in Sacramento weeks before he died. Very sad time for our country.

  • @averiemaddox6493
    @averiemaddox6493 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Hi Scott,
    So often we go through the demolishing of history here in Los Angeles. It is depressing! In this situation, the hotel was crumbling and falling apart. My question is why and how did it come to this? Is it because the hotel closed for business and once there was no revenue, there were no upkeep? Who owned it? So much history in this place! I wish someone had cared enough to renovate it and reopen it before it fell into disrepair. I wish I could have gone inside to see it.
    I have such a love of old Hollywood, history and architecture. I can’t imagine coming to this town and not being in awe of the history from Hollywood Blvd to Santa Monica beach, and yet some developer comes along and decides to tear down a timeless piece of history and rebuild a mausoleum. It’s maddening. And it seems we who love the past are usually on the losing end of that debate. 😞
    Thank you for sharing the photos of the interior of the hotel!

  • @incog99skd11
    @incog99skd11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I was in the Coconut Grove in 1970 after Sammy Davis "remodeled" it. We saw Liza Minelli there. Bruce Dern was at the table next to us and my date was swooning. He was very handsome then and I could see why he was in movies. I still have a wrapped sugar cube from there. The wrapper is pink. Sad it was torn down. As site of the RFK assassination, it should have been saved. The LA Conservancy put up a big fight to save it but the powers that be wanted it gone.

  • @speedracerjeff
    @speedracerjeff 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    My grandfather was a cook at the Ambassador in the 70s. Such a shame they tore it down and changed the property. Such a rich history all gone today. Love The Aviator movie as well. I miss your little museum and the tours! I did a couple tours but never got to do the Manson tour.

  • @NeenerBananas
    @NeenerBananas 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    My Senior Prom in 1977 was held at the Ambassador Hotel. We were in the same ballroom. I was too young to know how close to history I was. I lived in the San Gabriel Valley where Sirhan Sirhan lived and he purchased the gun a few miles from my house. Bobby was in El Monte a day or so before he was killed (riding in a open top convertible). You did a story about James Ellroy’s mother and her murder. I walked every day to school right past where her body was discovered. It was also the same High School (Arroyo H.S.) that Steven Parent had just graduated from the June before he was murdered by Tex Watson. I was a classmate of his younger brother.

    • @themerchantofengland
      @themerchantofengland 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Hi from the UK, amazing stories, thanks for sharing.

    • @NeenerBananas
      @NeenerBananas 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@themerchantofengland Thank you! You’re very kind😊

    • @anthonyangeli256
      @anthonyangeli256 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you know Sirhan killed Bobby? You believe the government? Don't be so naive friend!

    • @dominguezramiro1421
      @dominguezramiro1421 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The SGV especially the city of El Monte and South El Monte has a lot of history and things of interest I think people would love to learn about.

  • @incog99skd11
    @incog99skd11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    My parents home in Orange County was built in 1962 and it had the very same flooring in the kitchen as the Ambassador pantry. It was popular then and looked like a plastic terrazzo. Ours had a green tint to it which matched the forest green pile carpeting in the other rooms. Mid-century madness!

  • @getoffenit7827
    @getoffenit7827 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    9 effing months on lockdown in a Hotel for jury duty...i wouldve been climbing the walls

  • @catshotfourone7951
    @catshotfourone7951 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I watched his speech that night live on TV I was 8yrs old, it was summer so no school and was allowed to stay up and watch while the rest of the family went to bed, my first time ever viewing late night television I'll never forget.

    • @incog99skd11
      @incog99skd11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I heard it live on my radio in my bedroom. I was 16 years old and probably headed to Vietnam. I was devastated. I never went to Nam since I went to college and had a deferment.

    • @staceymichaels9530
      @staceymichaels9530 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@incog99skd11 Thank God You didn't go.

  • @maddogmorgan8737
    @maddogmorgan8737 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I stayed there in 1985 and they were filming a moonlighting episode [The Lady in the Iron Mask]. We were asked to be extras but sadly didn't make the final cut.

  • @ItsaKindOfMagic86
    @ItsaKindOfMagic86 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Scott have you ever considered writing a book showcasing your collection of items, photos, new clippings and trivia of your deep well of knowledge on Hollywood and American history?
    It would be a great addition to anyone who enjoys reading all of that in a nice big book. You do great work and have a nice treasure trove of souvenirs. 🙂

  • @nicolehall694
    @nicolehall694 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I'm grateful they used it so well in films like Bobby and That Thing You Do so it forever lives on film.
    It was truly a spectacular structure

  • @brober
    @brober 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Great vid. Walked right in the front entrance in the early 90's. Told the lone security guard I was scouting locations. Spent two hours wandering around . The ballroom was creepy. I can still smell the cat piss. If anyplace was haunted it was The Ambassador Hotel. Was glad to get back outside.

  • @donaldduncan7095
    @donaldduncan7095 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I'll never forget the summer of 1984 when I spent two weekends going to the Ambassador to take the "EST" seminars. I would park my car across the street in the old Brown Derby parking lot, incredibly the hat shaped restaurant was torn down, but the floor and the brim of the hat still remained. I could see the entrance where many famous peopled walked, I still kick myself for not picking up some of the rubble before they cleared that area to build the strip mall that sets there now.

    • @Sattnin77
      @Sattnin77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Why did they tear down the Brown Derby?

    • @RealLoriSpencer
      @RealLoriSpencer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was lucky enough to have dinner at the Brown Derby on Wilshire in 1986, and am still kicking myself for not venturing across the street to tour the Ambassador!
      Next time I returned to L.A. in 1994, it was too late… 😢

  • @GeeBee909
    @GeeBee909 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    When I worked for the Getty Oil Company we had our X-mas party at the Ambassador Hotel. Glad I was able experience it years before it's end

  • @amykramer4515
    @amykramer4515 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Very sad ending to a a huge piece of Hollywood history!!😔

  • @ThePursuitofHappiness1988
    @ThePursuitofHappiness1988 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    A real shame that it couldn’t be saved and turned into a museum with different floors exhibiting different eras in LA.

  • @goldenhoneysilk
    @goldenhoneysilk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    enjoyed the history of this story. I watched a movie of Bobby Kennedy, toward the end after the speech he made. I noticed he was walking in a different direction, till someone said no let's go this way which was toward the pantry ( wow ) that's where he got assassinated. up to this day makes me wonder if he kept walking the first direction he'd still be alive. am I wrong. came across the movie on TH-cam. What a beautiful hotel it was back in the glorious days. thanks Scott. have a safe Merry Christmas and Troy too

  • @angelalopez3701
    @angelalopez3701 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I understand you. When I am standing on such an historical spot I just get this feeling from my soul. When I touch walls of old buildings or antiques I get that feeling as well. I understand why you like to take with you a small piece of something/anything and just hold onto.
    I would have taken more artifacts and pictures too. My grandpa is buried at Calvary in ELA it’s a beautiful place I love to wonder. Example: I found Jelly Roll Morton a jazz musician who passed in Los Angeles in 1941. Then I dug up how he was such a horrible human no one,
    NO ONE went to his burial 🪦
    Hearing his jazz music and standing at his grave, reading his headstone is such a great experience to me. Thank you

  • @ShannonLee1956
    @ShannonLee1956 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    God bless you Scott for not following the rules to give us something to see! You got heart!!!

  • @MARTS54
    @MARTS54 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great video. Very informative. In 1976, I worked at the Equitable Building (located across the street from the Ambassador Hotel) at an advertising agency. The hotel was closed but a separate building of the hotel was open and had a restaurant. Occasionally we'd go there to have lunch (sandwiches, soups, salads). We'd also go to the Gaylord Hotel for lunch. They had a room where they served lunch specials. For celebrations or someone's first day on the job, we'd have lunch at the Brown Derby, located across the street.

  • @anonymousgirl799
    @anonymousgirl799 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Los Angeles Magazine did an excellent story and exquisite pictorial of the remains inside The Ambassador Hotel in the 1990's. I wish I'd have saved issue.

  • @anthonyangeli256
    @anthonyangeli256 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Absolutely great story Scott. I can hear the compassion in your voice as you tell how the destruction of this landmark was a total travisty in our history. I was a sophomore in highschool staying up late doing homework when Bobby was killed. They announced the next day he had died. Such a terrible time for America. Thank you Scott for an excellent job in telling this story.

    • @Elainerulesutube
      @Elainerulesutube 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They should never have demolished this hotel. It should've been declared an historic site.

    • @anthonyangeli256
      @anthonyangeli256 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Elainerulesutube the powers to be was responsible for this tragic destruction of this historic landmark. Not to mention the crime scene which was so controversial then as well as now. But I'm not the least bit surprised. The government is corrupt. Enough said.

  • @caroleeeubanks9286
    @caroleeeubanks9286 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Thank you for information and pictures, Scott. The Ambassador was always so fascinating to me. Unfortunately, I never got to see it. But I did get to go on your incredible Dearly Departed tour. Which was very fortunate! I sat up front with you on the tour bus and looked through your morbid pictures album. Which of course, I had to take pictures of your pictures. It was the best four I've ever been on. That was in 2006.

  • @stuckinmopro8533
    @stuckinmopro8533 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Offering a tour and then being told that you can’t photograph where the most infamous event took place seems a bit like bait and switch to me.

  • @donculver153
    @donculver153 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Great to have you as a custodian of those historical pieces. If they could talk. As usual, you present with such a respectful and historian demeanor. Thank you Scott. Happy Holidays to you and Troy.

    • @DearlyDepartedTours
      @DearlyDepartedTours  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Thanks, Donny. Unboxing on Christmas Eve! Looking forward to it x

    • @donculver153
      @donculver153 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@DearlyDepartedToursnothing special but better in your hands than mine. Like I said, you are a great keeper of the “STUFF” that keeps us Death Hags entertained. Merry Christmas Scott.

  • @Yvonnemar77
    @Yvonnemar77 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    It was a goal of mine to see The Ambassador. Unfortunately, I never made it. I very much appreciate this video. Thank you.

  • @dereknav400
    @dereknav400 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I used to live right by there. I was new to California and moved into a studio apartment in Korea town. I was literally right next to it on Mariposa street back in 1997. I always was fascinated by the beauty of this huge complex and always wondered about the history.

  • @SurferJoe1
    @SurferJoe1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I got in there for a shoot (Leprechaun 3). The doors to the big hall where RFK spoke were chained, but I managed to peek in a little. The pantry was open, and on the spot where Kennedy bled a big 'X' had been carved into the floor. There's a similar marking (paint, I think) in the middle lane at Dealey Plaza, on the key spot. The Grove was where the shoot was going on; it was really cool, and the lobby and lounge from"The Graduate" (I which it was the "Taft") seemed pretty unchanged.

  • @SHERRY0010
    @SHERRY0010 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    It’s very sad when they demolish history . For me, the destruction of the Viper Room is terrible . I visited LA in the early 1990’s, and went there one night. So many memories !
    I noticed they didn’t implode the Ambassador . They ripped it down instead . Was there a reason for that ? I bet that place was full of asbestos ?

    • @DearlyDepartedTours
      @DearlyDepartedTours  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Viper got a reprieve for now. It will 100% be demolished in the near future, but it is still open. I'm surprised by that.

    • @SHERRY0010
      @SHERRY0010 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@DearlyDepartedTours hopefully there are others working to get it saved . Up here in Calgary, they’re ripping down many historic buildings, homes . To put in high density housing .

    • @tdpooh1972
      @tdpooh1972 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @SHERRY0010 - I was thinking the same thing about asbestos when Scott picked up that piece of ceiling to show it. Yikes!

  • @UPalooza
    @UPalooza 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would drive by during pre-demolition to look at it. I'd take a drive around the perimeter.
    It just makes me sad.

  • @NetWit20
    @NetWit20 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    My Uncle Bob knew Sirhan Sirhan. He used to pick him up in his Lime Gold 1967 Mustang and take him to church at the First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena. Uncle Bob was trying to take the young 24 year-old Palestinian kid under his wing. Sirhan was raised Palestinian Christian. I rode in that same Mustang to see the Queen Mary come into port in Long Beach a few months earlier.

  • @willfade7994
    @willfade7994 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love this episode! When I was a little girl, my Dad and Stepmom had an apartment in LA that was walking distance from the Ambassador Hotel. My Stepmom worked in bookkeeping for a specialty clothing shop (men’s suits if memory serves) called G B Harb & Son. It was right across the street from the Ambassador Hotel there on Wilshire Blvd. I remember my Dad and I going for walks to meet my Stepmom for lunch and/or to get ice-cream at a Thrifty drug store just up the street on Wilshire and we’d always make a point to go look at the hotel. I don’t recall if we ever went in, but I think it was closed at that point (late 80’s). I remember thinking it was so beautiful. We’d eat ice-cream and my Dad would tell me stories about the Ambassador and celebrities, the death of RFK, etc. So many memories. I was sad to see it go because it will always remind me of my father and my childhood memories of living in Los Angeles.
    Thank you so much! I’m so glad you have some keepsakes from the hotel.
    🌹

  • @chrism1528
    @chrism1528 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I drove by the shell of the building many times in the 2000s and was always sad that i'd never get to see the inside. Thank you for finally making it happen! Great work (as always)!

  • @Blueskys1972
    @Blueskys1972 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Cool and sad history. Another great video ❤ if only we had a time machine!!! 😊

  • @alexdelarge9778
    @alexdelarge9778 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I often think about places I wish I'd seen before they were closed or demolished and The Ambassador is definitely on that list, along with Barker Ranch and 100050 Cielo Drive. But at least I got to stay at the Alta Cienega Motel and see the Jim Morrison Room and watch Birds of Prey at the Arclight Cinerama Dome on Sunset. Both places were closed shortly after my visits.

  • @antonchigurh3794
    @antonchigurh3794 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    A friend of mines band filmed a video in there right before it was demolished. One of them took some tiles from the kitchen floor. When my Dad was young , he had , or I guess I did too.... a relative that lived across the street from the Ambassador. He used to go swimming there sometime around the mid 40s.

  • @sergiodelgadillo8624
    @sergiodelgadillo8624 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love your segment on the Ambassador Hotel I used to be a bellboyy there in 1983 how was a young kid I was only 22 years old but I was there for a few years I have a lot of stuff that belongs to the Ambassador I have the mirror that was in the suite that Kennedy was in before his assassination also a wooden box that was in one of the shops in the basement level I still got my Ambassador ID dinner plates that were very famous
    The story that went around is that the coconut Grove took a dive Sammy Davis Junior contracted to revise the Coconut Grove in the 70s and that's why there was such a change it never worked and it took a dive
    It was the best job I've had I met so many people there from all over the world I met the side and film star actresses that were so old that used to live at the Gaylord hotel that will come over and dress like they were still from the 1920s I was Dr Welby from the doctor Welby show if I'm pronouncing it right I was his bellboy that's would meet him every day at 3:00 in the front of the main entrance Under the Clock I would greet him and carry his bags to his room and he would tip me $1
    I'm 63 now but I used to roam that hotel at night when I had to work nights The Operators will actually use the original switchboards from back in the days to connect people to their rooms it was amazing

  • @carolynnock6646
    @carolynnock6646 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thank you Scott, I love the film Bobbie, I was gutted when the Ambassador was demolished although I never have been to The States. I defo would have come on a Dearly Departed Tour had I been able. You are a hero of mine. I have met you, the best day. x

  • @dougdrage9300
    @dougdrage9300 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Scott - just watching this. Did you notice in one of the THAT THING YOU DO exterior clips it appears there is a mural sized version of one of the LA CAVE PIGALLO matchbooks (upper left).
    Also my daughter worked there for LA unified school district- she sent me pix from inside - says they did preserve the coconut grove and some other stuff.

    • @DearlyDepartedTours
      @DearlyDepartedTours  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I looked at that billboard and noticed the pattern similar to the matchbook but I will definitely look again! THanks for the tip!

  • @annesantos5104
    @annesantos5104 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was so interesting! I worked for several years on Wilshire Blvd., about 3 blocks from the Ambassador Hotel. I used to take a walk several times per week during my lunch break and always passed the hotel. It hadn’t been demolished yet, but was very run down and falling apart. It used to make me sad to look at it and think about its rich history, and what had happened to RFK that terrible day. The last thing I remember before our office moved, is the demolition of everything except the Coconut Grove. After that, I didn’t see it very often.
    Thanks so much for the tour, Scott. You have some great collectibles!

  • @LeeTheVet
    @LeeTheVet 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video, Scott! Marilyn Monroe had an event there at the Cocoanut Grove inside the Ambassador Hotel, March 8, 1960, for the 17th Golden Globe Awards.
    She won as Best Actress for Some Like It Hot.

  • @SunCoastFilms
    @SunCoastFilms 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just found your channel. New Sub here. Broke my heart to see this historic hotel get demolished. Too bad they couldn't save it. I stay and film in many historic hotels. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @darrelllloyd3290
    @darrelllloyd3290 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    On March 9, 1990 saw David Cassidy play “The Last Groove At The Grove”

  • @shawnamelva583
    @shawnamelva583 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video. Not much for sale on eBay but post cards and matchbooks. A brick is pretty cool. L.A. Unified failure to keep Cocoanut Grove sucks. They didn't bargain in good faith, they lied. Such a great example for the kids.

  • @GLK-London
    @GLK-London 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It has taken me 2 months to steel myself and watch this heartbreaking video. I stayed at the Ambassador in September of 1986 when on holiday from England I was heartbroken and astonished that somewhere with so much iconic history was destroyed. Sadly it often seems the way. I have an amazing book on its history that used to be on sale at the hotel. It has a beautiful gold cover and is full of remarkable photos of famous people from the last century who stayed and played there. Thank you so much for all your videos Scott, although this one was very bittersweet.❤

  • @deirdrerosesharples7453
    @deirdrerosesharples7453 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This is brilliant have Aviator on DVD sorry no my mum has it loves it, I bought for her few Christmas's ago, going to try watch again didn't realise it was the ambassador hotel coconut grove wow way cool, Martin Scorsese has such an eye for recreating historical places❤

  • @kathyhays9819
    @kathyhays9819 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Just sad that those buildings of history has to be torn down. Again thanks for sharing so interesting.

  • @chinacatgrace5396
    @chinacatgrace5396 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Scott, I love your stories! Thank you!😘

  • @cathpeterson1944
    @cathpeterson1944 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    sad The Ambassador is gone, was jaw-dropping gorgeous place in its day, awesome narrative Scott I luv these stories

  • @Johnaxl666
    @Johnaxl666 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Shortly after it closed, Guns N' Roses filmed the video for "Patience" inside the hotel. You can see the hallway and the lobby

    • @minnae.1747
      @minnae.1747 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Wow, didn't know that! That's cool.

  • @edwardscissorhands4007
    @edwardscissorhands4007 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What an Amazing tribute of yours to the historic Ambassador Hotel and Bobby Kennedy. I have a silver looking pitcher size Coffee urn from the kitchen and a black cigarette ash tray from the Coconut Grove.

  • @chrismcgill
    @chrismcgill 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    definitely a huge loss for that hotel to go. I'm sure there were many opportunities for it to be saved, but (for reasons I haven't researched) it wasn't.
    I'm a history nerd, so I'm glad you put together a vlog about your experience at the Ambassador because that building/property was super vital to the fabric of American culture and history. also, I'm slightly jealous of your brick and piece of floor from the pantry. so, don't think you don't have as much as you could've gotten from the property because almost none of us have even one item.
    thanks for what you do, Scott 🤙

    • @incog99skd11
      @incog99skd11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was a colossal battle between the LA Conservancy and the City of Los Angeles School District. I followed it for years and it was just devastating they could not have found a solution without destroying the place entirely. Some proposals were to keep the room RFK last spoke as a room in the high school but they couldn't even leave that. I am sure the powers that be simply wanted the place gone so nobody could prove the government killed RFK.

    • @chrismcgill
      @chrismcgill 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@incog99skd11 your last point is what I'm leaning towards, too. RFK was probably actually going to do some transformational work for the people as president, and that's obviously a no-go for the "powers that be".

  • @tricia-k21
    @tricia-k21 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Thank you for another fantastic video! Always such cool content✨
    Btw, I love your background, light blue wall & the awesome retro looking painting.
    Love it😊✨

  • @incog99skd11
    @incog99skd11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The very first Academy Awards were held in the Grove in 1929.

    • @RealLoriSpencer
      @RealLoriSpencer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Actually that was the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. The Oscars were held there from 1927-33

  • @MrLifesavers1
    @MrLifesavers1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember that during the demo work at the hotel they came across what would have been an apartment that was created specifically for Sammy Davis Jr. It seemed to be from the 70's and as they tore the wall out it revealed some awesome 70's mirrored wallpaper.

  • @SarahM906
    @SarahM906 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This was so interesting. I'm so glad I recently discovered your channel ☺

  • @cindysmith2858
    @cindysmith2858 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So sad so many old buildings are destroyed and especially ones of history. I live in a town of about 70 thousand and not near the popularity of this but they destroyed so many of our beautiful old buildings in something they called urban renewal back in the mid to late seventies. The Robidoux Hotel was our beautiful hotel that was demolished actually by blowing it up. 😢 my mother actually cried that day she stated so many memories and it’s just gone. So sad!!😢😢

  • @davidterrazas3779
    @davidterrazas3779 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Awesome blog on the place,too much history to let it go unforgotten

  • @amyh8621
    @amyh8621 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Absolutely fascinating. Thanks, Scott! More 6 degrees of Helter Skelter!

  • @jamestakacs
    @jamestakacs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Did you ever do a program from The Biltmore? I stayed there twice. Another old Hollywood historic place.

  • @thomashawkinson7017
    @thomashawkinson7017 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Great work sir! You are a true historian. Tom H.

  • @paean109
    @paean109 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    What a massive building to demolish. So much concrete. Incredible history Scott. Thank you for sharing your footage and photos.

  • @staceymichaels9530
    @staceymichaels9530 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank You for this...very informative and sad to see the ruin of this impressive hotel.

  • @edwardaustin740
    @edwardaustin740 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Scott, you never cease to amaze me. I hope you continue to do so. I'm always in awe of the things you share with us.
    I appreciate it.

  • @ageoff684
    @ageoff684 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for sharing all this never new or got to see this LA hotel
    Was very interesting and depressing
    But I am glad you preserved so much for us to view. Always love your videos you know so much history of LA love it!

  • @moonchildluvsbobcrane
    @moonchildluvsbobcrane 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have some Kennedy autographs. Another fascinating video Scott!

  • @cynthiakluck-johnson5895
    @cynthiakluck-johnson5895 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Can you imagine if someone's wife had just gotten pregnant at the beginning of the Manson trial and they were serving on the jury, they could have been away from their partner virtually for the whole time? Wow.

  • @themerchantofengland
    @themerchantofengland 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Hey Scott. Thanks for sharing this, your passion for history is palpable, love what you do x.

  • @garymangan2761
    @garymangan2761 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love the movie clips you added in .wow .brilliant.

  • @BrianUnderwood-q5u
    @BrianUnderwood-q5u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for covering this. Ive been wondering what happened to this historical hotel. Love your programs Scott

  • @soniagardencourtreporter1173
    @soniagardencourtreporter1173 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Really enjoyed the history of this fabulous place I never knew about!

  • @ronaldmiller2740
    @ronaldmiller2740 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    VERY SAD THAT THEY LET THIS GRAND OLD BUILDING GO!!! THERE ARE MANY OLD HOTEL LEFT TO THIS DAY,... THIS HOTEL IS HISTORY,, SAD AT THE AUCTION SEEING ALL THE HOTEL'S OLD BELONGINGS ALL BEING SOLD ,THIS HOTEL WAS BEING RAPED FROM HER PAST AND FUTURE TO BE IF PEOPLE CARED.. THANKS FOR MOST OF THE INFO,,..

  • @Randene31
    @Randene31 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great story. I love all the memorabilia and the depth of knowledge.

  • @ethantaube2512
    @ethantaube2512 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Why didn’t they save the hotel and make it into a museum just like the 6th floor museum

  • @jeffchandler2521
    @jeffchandler2521 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Such a beautiful hotel back in its day.The attention to detail is amazing they sure don’t make anything like that anymore.If we could go back in it’s hay day.

  • @bradley7723
    @bradley7723 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It's sad that landmark gets
    torn down but there are reasons mainly financial that these landmarks close down in the first place. After being vacant for so long they become dangerous, and no-one can expect tax payers to foot the millions it would take for renovation and upkeep of an insolvent building. The memory will live on and that is enough. 😊
    If the entrance tower still stands it possibly could be updated with a plaque that explains " on this site stood the Ambassador Hotel where in 1968 Bobby Kennedy lost his life" as a monument of him and the hotel.🤔

  • @jf9488
    @jf9488 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Sadly all of history in this country is under attack and is being erased. We have a few generations nowadays that don’t care about anything past 2010. Strange.

  • @cjholmes4329
    @cjholmes4329 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks so much for this great tribute to an iconic landmark that is now sadly a thing of the past. I was born and raised in Los Angeles and was deeply affected by the assassination of RFK (I was 14 years old in 1968). I was however much more interested in the JFK assassination and have visited Dealey Plaza four times. I only wish i had taken the time to visit the Ambassador when it was still around... Your videos always provide great education and entertainment but this one might just be my favorite. Well done!

  • @janetmaurer2888
    @janetmaurer2888 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    i love these kinds of posts...what an awesome look at history

  • @DeadSoulsSocialClub
    @DeadSoulsSocialClub 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Scott - Another amazing video. Mesmerising in parts.
    I wasn't lucky enough to see the Ambassador before it was demolished, but I've visited the site a few times since (and the Gaylord & HMS Bounty opposite). Its one of those places where you can feel the history permeating through you as you stand at the location....(Well as close as you can from the street)
    I adore American history, and the Kennedy's are an important part of that for me, so this video really resonated.
    Keep up the great work Scott, and thank you. You'll always have my complete support.
    Jamie
    (Dead Souls Social Club)

  • @kimsinclair9100
    @kimsinclair9100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great history and story.

  • @timbuege2624
    @timbuege2624 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you Scott for showing us your memories of the Ambassador and it’s impact on our national consciousness and culture. I have always wondered how authentic the spaces and feel of the hotel was in the various shows and movies. This hotel was indeed a treasure and it’s a shame indeed that it deteriorated to the point that it was demolished. Thank you for doing the wonderful stories that you do. I love your work and appreciate that you share your passion with all of us. God bless you and Merry Christmas!

  • @362chop
    @362chop 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    After what happened to Jack it boggles one’s mind how this could have happened again. Another mystery but this was casually dismissed. Great clip, I thank you.

  • @TinCupChalice40
    @TinCupChalice40 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    In 1980 John F Kennedy High School in Granada Hills held our prom there. It was so memorable

  • @sonyawright1625
    @sonyawright1625 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fantastic! I have never seen footage of the auction before. Does anyone know what the 2 "watch towers" on the roof were used for? Greetings from New Zealand :)

  • @GohAhweh
    @GohAhweh 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I went there after they closed it and went into the Coconut Grove and in some cabinets, there were some old 12x14 photographs and I think I still have them somewhere, one is a photo cubby and his band from The Mouseketeers and a picture of Leif Garrett with his mom.. why these things were in a nondescript cabinet I don't know.. just forgotten things from the past we also went up to the top floor and then security spotted us and we were asked to leave, I'm guessing this was around 1989/90.

  • @ooddities
    @ooddities 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Too bad you couldn’t have gotten all the kitchen pantry items (sink-counters-cabinets) in order to preserve it & eventually do a remake of it for people to see. Anyway, love all your content friend, Happy Christmas to you & Troy.

  • @Wooley689
    @Wooley689 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That mortar swipe on the brick at end you are holding, just think about the worker who applied that mortar to that very brick that was part of the building for so long. I'm weird, I think about such things and wonder about those persons.

  • @kaymad143
    @kaymad143 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That is sad for the Ambassador Hotel and Coconut Grove Night Club was demolished, it is such a historic place. I remember watching Bobby Kennedy's train go by, I remember my Mom crying while seeing it on TV. That was an awful day, we lost a good man, Bobby Kennedy, his friend and NFL Linebacker, Rosie Greer wrestled the gun away, then caught and subdued Sirhan Sirhan (he had been guarding Ethel Kennedy). RIP Bobby Kennedy

  • @charleysmall8910
    @charleysmall8910 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like all your videos and I am a Patreon. You said something about Dearly Departed Documentary Part 1. Are these documentaries online somewhere to watch?

    • @WhenImBackInChicago
      @WhenImBackInChicago 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They're on his TH-cam channel;
      the very one you're presently viewing.*
      *Tap the circular image of Scott.
      Or, you could otherwise, go to your TH-cam spyglass, and type in his name and The Ambassador Hotel.
      🕯.

  • @Thomas-gc5bi
    @Thomas-gc5bi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    HATE to see history disappear!!!!!

  • @TheChristafershawn
    @TheChristafershawn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I worked on a film shoot in the late 90's and was able to do some exploring of the Ambassador premises including the pantry. I worked in many historical "closed to the public" sites: due to film production. It was one of the coolest perks of those gigs. I even ran into some paranormal situations in a few of the old theaters in DT LA. Sad these places just get erased.