AMBASSADOR HOTEL: LOST IN HISTORY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2020
- Opening in 1921 in what's now Korea Town Los Angeles, The Ambassador Hotel was the premier place to stay. Because of it's luxurious atmosphere and the glamorous Cocoanut Grove every celebrity of the day was said to frequent it's palm lined room where liquor was even sold during prohibition.
Six Academy Award ceremonies occurred here along with playing host to every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Nixon.
In 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated here after giving a speech as he exited the building. Unfortunately the murder and urban deterioration surrounding the area marked a steady decline of the hotel until it was closed to guests in 1989.
Except for the occasional film shoot and private party the once glamorous Ambassador Hotel stood vacant for years until it was almost entirely demolished in 2006 to build the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools system which stands there today.
This is a brief history of the building.
If you have any questions or I made any historical mistakes please let me know.
I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE CREDIT FOR EVERY PHOTO/ILLUSTRATION/VIDEO/FILM USED IN THIS VIDEO BECAUSE I PULLED THEM FROM MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE INSPIRATION FOR THE FILM MONTAGE SCENE REGARDING ALL THE MOVIES THAT HAVE BEEN SHOT AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS GREAT VIDEO BELOW THAT WAS MADE BY CAMILO SILVA:
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IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL, PLEASE CHECK OUT THE LINK BELOW TO A FASCINATING NEW FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY BEING DEVELOPED BY CAMILO SILVA THAT DELVES DEEPER INTO THE HISTORY OF THE AREA.
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MUSIC: (in order of played)
Chopin - E Minor Prelude
Philipp Weigl - Even When We Fall
Chris Zabriskie - The Temperature of the Air on the Bow of the Kaleetan
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In 1987 i was in my 20’s and lived a block away from this magnificent hotel. I was so sad to see it torn down. What a shame. What a waste.
Why aren't there more comments for this video?!? THANK you for putting this together. It was truly moving.
Thanks!
I had the honor to grow up three blocks away from the ambassador hotel. Even today it still astonishes me how close I grew up to a place with so much historical value and where sadly RFK was shot and robbed from us at a point where he had much more to offer us. May what he wanted for this world become the truth one day.
Thankyou for the wonderful video! I cried for Robert Kennedy
This is my school now! :D
me too omg, what Academy
Me too!!!!
I have had the honor to work on this site, such a building of beauty and history. Best experience of my professional career.
My sister worked as a PBX phone operator!! I never took a tour, of this beautiful landmark.
Wish they could’ve preserved it, what a gem
I was in my lonely studio apartment in the Gaylord Apartments across the street when the fatal gunshots rang out in '68
I was in my lonely studio apartment on Kingsley street a couple blocks up when I made this video...
@@ChrisOrrFilm And I was in my "lonely" mansion when I read your comments regarding RFK assassination at the Ambassador Hotel! Shoulda listened to secret service agents n security and not done that exit!... But rest assured Robert wasn't lonely, cuz he had many female companions including Marilyn Monroe! Qand no apartments for him that were lonely ,lol!!
I had my SENIOR PROM at the Ambassador Hotel…. It was in the same ballroom .
RFK Jr is running for President of the United States.
I believe that the wedding reception scenes in The Wedding Singer were also filmed at the Ambassador. I hated seeing this iconic landmark demolished. I had hoped it could have been preserved and renovated
I stayed at this hotel in 1984 and while i was there they were filming and was able to be in the film as a background artist.
every time an Iconic building is demolished, the city loses that much more of it's character.
Fantastic upload! I wish this was an hour. Great work TY
In 1970 … our senior class had our Senior Prom in the Grand Ballroom … it was a true fairytale experience that night…
My mom took me to special lunches there when I was a little girl …
Such sweet memories🥰
Fantastic video. One correction: Sirhan did not hide his gun inside a campaign poster. There was some confusion at the time because another individual (Michael Wayne) who somewhat looked like Sirhan was also in the area of the pantry at the time of the shooting. Wayne was carrying a campaign poster that RFK had autographed as he moved through the kitchen on his way to making his speech.
Excellent video. 👍
In place of the hotel, is a school. There are homeless people residing there now.
This is a sad fate of a famous hotel. Nothing lasts forever.
Nothing last what people destroying on purpose. In my country we have Roman ruins under a highway what is only elevated because we didn't wanted to destroy the ruins, we have a small golf course in the middle of the city, we don't gofling but there are some thousand years old fundation under the land so we don't build on it.
What will remain from the USA if the petrodollar will fall?
Came here in June 78, and had no idea of its history, as it turns out, I ended up with the same disease as JFK. Came another 3 times to the states trying to find some happiness, never did find it, big mistake.
I still remember well the day R.F.K was assassinated in the restaurant's kitchen in 1968, I was eleven years old and it feels like yesterday. I worked on many film projects there in the late 90's. Donald Trump had bought the hotel and was planning on renovating it. But then the 1994 the earthquake hit, and it was so badly damaged that he later sold the land to the L.A. Unified school district. All good things come to an end. Souvenirs of the past, I have a few.
"In 1991, Donald Trump, who had bought the hotel in hopes of tearing it down to build a 125-story building" - from Wikipedia
And that is why UCLA was built in 2009 ( Also that’s my school! :D )
Dope video!
Oscar award winner Hattie McDaniel won the prestigious award and was made to enter through the back door, because of the color of her beautiful skin. Paul Williams, a highly respected architect designed the structure of the building.
i did not know that, thanks for sharing!
Interesting to see all the films which were made there. It must have been so glamorous in its heyday.
2:31 That sign says "Hard Rock Cafe", where is that clip from? What street? Year?
Edit: Nevermind, I was able to track it down online. While the official history says that the first Hard Rock Cafe was was opened in the Beverly Center, this was the ORIGINAL Hard Rock Cafe -- a dive bar located on 5th and Wall in the heart of skid row in Los Angeles. Apparently the name was borrowed from the owner to use for the first Rock and Roll inspired cafe in London in the 1970s, and the rest is history.
That US Liquor Store is now a Police Station.
Suprised The Aviators coconut grove scenes weren’t filmed there...
Hello, and welcome to my comments about your establishment during the Counter-City, and during the 90's I rode down your establishment and wondered why you have price index. Ironically, you've been taken down for a public high school, what did it?
i went by in 2006 only to see the shell of 1 of the buildings and the dilapidated gate and sign :(
Bugsy Siegel owned shares in the hotel and was one of the executive managers in the late 30s/early 40s.
interesting! i didn't know that
Shame they demolished this hotel
yes I agree it is a shame
@@ChrisOrrFilm The 1994 earthquake sealed its fate.
The 1994 earthquake sealed its fate.
@@encomanenco7347 I don't think so, the building was good enough to host film makers after 1994.
Look up the name, “Thane Eugene Cesar.”
SHAME SHAME SHAME on Los Angeles!! 😡 Even tho I live and grew up in San Diego I had two aunt's and uncle's up there one in Huntington Beach the other Whittier so feel a connection as did lots of growing up up there. It just blows the mind LA's so-called leaders would have even contemplated tearing down the historical Ambassador let alone actually going through with it - shame on the lot of em. They couldn't of been Local homegrown SoCals to hey had to of been transplants or kin to transplants. Sadly it's the same down here over the years these nonlocal transplants sway our votes to our city leaders and the bulldozing and razing the disrespect disregard of all historic antiquities carries on. 😡
One prime example down here is that stupid new Petco ballpark SD needed as much it needed a hole in the head leveling all sorts of history in its path. ARRRGH. 😡😡😡
But the old Ambassador what a crying shame. Sorry to all the REAL Los Angelians up there I know that hurt.
Btw thx for the video I liked and joined! 👏
It happens all the time. Look at all the hotels in Las Vegas that were destroyed
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas was the Beverly Hills Hotel, not the Ambassador
Very sad
Terrific reuse of a historic site.
i can see same intentions and expressions on his like jfk god bless the kennedy family
So Very Sad the Assainason of Robert Kennedy I hope the Evil person who killed him, sirham sirham Never kills anyone
Amen