Scott there is a tunnel that went from The Ambassador Hotel under Wilshire to The Brown Derby so celebs and big wigs could dodge paparazzi with their mistresses, pretty cool. i lived in "The Gaylord" for two years, best two years of my life. Incredible units and views, pool, and the HMS just like Scott says, the best dim dive bar with so much history. Food is really good at HMS so is the jukebox
This is spectacular! The tales, the curved patinated dark wood, all the glorious history. I am always seeking it out in my beloved New York City & am due for a return visit to Los Angeles. Rowdy applause, Scott! ✌️♥️
I used to live in the The Gaylord and never had any paranormal activities there, but around the corner at The Langham on Normandie, that's where I had things happen.
@@marymayor66 So I lived there in 1990. I want to say I paid $600 for a studio and $450 at the Langham. The Gaylord has very small apartments (It's a nicer building though), you can tell it was a Hotel, so was the Langham, but it had larger units.
I lived in The Langham from ‘84-89. Great old building. Never had anything paranormal happen, but I can imagine the ghosts. Johnny Weissmuller used to swim in the rooftop pool, apparently.
In my drinking days, hms bounty was my bar too... my favorite part was one of the regulars was a famous big band trumpet or sax player, and whenever they would play his song with his solo in it on the jukebox, he'd stand up and salute, then cuss out everyone around him that didn't stand and salute his solo! I think his name was Corky
Why wouldn’t he go down the steps though? Is it dangerous down there now cos he said he used to go down there . Sorry I’m asking you cos you’re obvs familiar with the area 🤣
@@stacyhughes.and.her.2cats HMS Bounty is not specific to the region of Los Angeles. It means Her Majesty’s Ship. The HMS Bounty was a British ship from the 1700’s (The Mutiny on the Bounty).
Awesome vintage L.A. adventure. I have fond memories of the Ambassador, in 1984, I took the EST training there for two weekends (a fast-food version of Zen enlightenment). I would park my car behind what use to be the Brown Derby, all that was left was the floor and the brim of the derby and a few walls, so I just stood a while to soak in the history. Thanks , so enjoyable to see the surviving history of L.A.
Hi scott! I liked the story on the gaylord i enjoy reading the history on these old los Angeles buildings. Keep em coming I'm sure many others love em as well, thank you, take care.
The Bounty reminds me of the Smoke House. My great uncle (and godfather) Chick Taylor was a bartender at the Smoke House, forever. He worked there so long it’s where he retired from back in the early seventies. Being right across the street from the front gates of Warner Brothers, he had some stories to tell (primarily to the adults in my family). I grew up in the Hollywood Hills with hippies, newly minted Vietnam vets, actors, musicians, and industry people. Amazing times, with the three most frightening being the RFK assassination, the Tate murders, and the 1971 earthquake (our house was a cliffhanger and it slightly tilted).
Hey Scott I just truly wanted to thank you very much for making these video's. I have always been really fascinated with pretty much anything to do with Hollywood. The way you tell the stories you make it very interesting and I love watching your channel. My wife and I was actually going to come out to LA in May 2024 that is where we picked for our vacation. But unfortunately I lost my job a few weeks ago do to the company shutting down now I don't know when we will be able to come out to LA but I will be out there one day lol. I would just like to say thank you again for everything that you do. I would love to meet you one day. I hope that you and your family and friend's have a blessed day and keep up the good work.
I love this! I used to live just a couple blocks away from there. I could see the Equitable building from my bedroom window and often walked the area, though I was too young for The Bounty then. That was before they tore down the Ambassador Hotel which still tears at my heartstrings. Thank you for yet another great video and small tour of my old neighborhood.
The romanticism of the areas inside that building, holding memories of glamorous days. The Bounty is just a great vivacious sounding place. Glad to get a glimpse. The hopes and dreams people had coming there! Alluring The nostalgia is bittersweet
Cool! The Gaylord is such a beautiful building. Have never been inside, but have marveled at it, when passing by. From the freeway, also, I think you can see the sign, it’s name. It’s a beautiful old building.
Please keep the videos coming! This is my favorite channel. I've walked every square inch of LA and this way of exploring is much cheaper...lol. I love LA and Dearly Departed Tours! You're a legend Scott. I used to live in Desert Hot Springs...please don't ask. It was a transistional period and now I live in Boulder, CO. Please keep it up!
I believe you Scott. My late father lived at the Sands Rv Park which is high end for the "a_s end" of the Coachella Valley. Me and my late father had dinner at the Capri Italian Restaurant and they told us all the celebrities used to go there in the 50's & 60's. The Capri still looks like it did from all those years ago. It's old school so if you make it to the DHS check out the Capri for nostalgia and good food.
I love when you fascinate me with unknown knowledge. Excellent background information. Thank you Scott!!😊 It's sad so many landmarks are torn down. It's history!!!
The video is second to seeing you all. Great place and what a great piece of history. I love the dive bar hangout feel of the Bounty. A must next time I’m in LA. Thanks Scott.
Amazing video as always - thank you Scott! That’s great you still meet up with your team from Dearly departed (so glad to see Terry, a face I remember from my tour with you!) a nice memory from my favourite part of my LA stopovers on my way home!
Live a block away from here... Would love even more to live at the Gaylord! If I could go back to any place in LA it would be the Ambassador and the Cocoanut Grove...say around 1940. ❤ HMS Bounty is a favorite watering hole for my neighbors and I; love hanging in Jacks old booth and wondering if he is around. 😏😁 Thanks Scott, loved this video! 💪♥️
I solicited an invitation onto the set of "Leprechaun 3" (I think it was) in order to get into the Ambassador, circa 1994. The ballroom was chained up, couldn't see much there. There was an 'x' carved into the kitchen floor to mark the spot where RFK bled, and when I walked in a crew member with a huge blunt was telling someone on his cell phone "Hey, man. I'm gettin' stoned right where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated!" The lounge and front desk looked exactly like they did in "The Graduate". The Grove (which was incredibly cool) was where they were actually filming. When the creepy Leprechaun walked in (in full costume and make-up) I got the hell out of there. But so glad I got to see it.
Remarkable that they havent changed it. One of 2 remaining local bars in my town recently shut down. The lady that owned it bless her heart is 85 and tried in vain for years to find a buyer that would keep it in original form. We're talking 40+ years of history. A classic Florida dive bar just a block off the beach. She finally threw in the towel a month ago. Some developer swooped in and gutted the place. Its being turned into a soulless phony honky tonk type place. One of those that tries to look classic and rustic but is obviously not. the sentimental stuff was taken by regulars so thats a small positive. Just a shame. All of Florida is slowly going this way. Gutted and robbed of its soul.
wow so cool i like jack webb also i lear something new i did not know Gaylor was a arpment hotel too all i think was the Gaylor was on tv ty for video yall have a good week
Keep doing those subtle drops. I came directly from The Ambassador vid to here. Nice job! Dying to see this, as The Haunted Mansion aging recording would say. Thanks, Scott.
Umm...What the heck? 6:19 i'm pretty sure hes telling the story of Charles Starkweather. And the girl who claimed innocence as soon as they got caught was named Caril Ann Fugate. She got off scott free and Starkweather got the electric chair. If thats not the actual story hes referring to then thats a seriously creepy coincidence!
0:58 "we don't go don't there anymore. there was a time when we did." growing up a few blocks from there it's so sad to see. it wasn't like that when i was a kid. when you're a child growing up you think things were going to get better and it's so sad to see such a beautiful place deteriorate.
Yes the bounty is the best. Kind of an underground cool spot to hang. Great to see it’s still there. You should check out the Langham Apartments 7th and Normandie. It has some great ole Hollywood history
Such interesting original architecture in LA/Hollywood. Still neat to see, but wonder what it all looked like back in the day when my grandfather was a bartender at the Florentine Gardens back in the 40's.
I used to love eating at the Bounty and going into the lobby of the Gaylord. The display case with Gaylord artifacts was fascinating. Sometimes there would be an old lady sitting in the lobby. Probably a resident. I wonder what the inside of an apartment looks like.
Thank you for this Scott. I had heard about hotels in LA with more than their share of tragic occurrences. Everyone knows that John Belushi died at the Chateau Marmont. Janis Joplin died at the then Landmark. The horrible history of the Cecil especially the tragic death of Elisa Lam and the fouling of the water there. I honestly never heard of this hotel's past. Very informative thank you.
Elisa Lam story is unreal as they have the footage of her in the Hotel freaking out, then she ends up in the Water Tank which was impossible for her to open it up, will be a mystery I think for ever.
Also, The Knickerbocker Hotel has stories too. I first learned about it back when E! had Mysteries and Scandals and then did further reading on my own (I was in my teens and in high school) and I couldn't get enough. Absolutely fascinating.
Scott there is a tunnel that went from The Ambassador Hotel under Wilshire to The Brown Derby so celebs and big wigs could dodge paparazzi with their mistresses, pretty cool.
i lived in "The Gaylord" for two years, best two years of my life. Incredible units and views, pool, and the HMS just like Scott says, the best dim dive bar with so much history. Food is really good at HMS so is the jukebox
This is spectacular! The tales, the curved patinated dark wood, all the glorious history. I am always seeking it out in my beloved New York City & am due for a return visit to Los Angeles. Rowdy applause, Scott! ✌️♥️
I stayed at the Ambassador in 85 and they were filming a Moonlighting episode. I was asked to be an extra but I got cut out.
I used to live in the The Gaylord and never had any paranormal activities there, but around the corner at The Langham on Normandie, that's where I had things happen.
How much did it cost to live at the Gaylord?
@@marymayor66 So I lived there in 1990. I want to say I paid $600 for a studio and $450 at the Langham. The Gaylord has very small apartments (It's a nicer building though), you can tell it was a Hotel, so was the Langham, but it had larger units.
@@jliscorpio Wow, that was cheap compared to what it probably costs today.
What happened there?
I lived in The Langham from ‘84-89. Great old building. Never had anything paranormal happen, but I can imagine the ghosts. Johnny Weissmuller used to swim in the rooftop pool, apparently.
In my drinking days, hms bounty was my bar too... my favorite part was one of the regulars was a famous big band trumpet or sax player, and whenever they would play his song with his solo in it on the jukebox, he'd stand up and salute, then cuss out everyone around him that didn't stand and salute his solo! I think his name was Corky
Why wouldn’t he go down the steps though? Is it dangerous down there now cos he said he used to go down there . Sorry I’m asking you cos you’re obvs familiar with the area 🤣
@@littlemy1773most likely someone's living quarters now
@@nevergiveup9321 oh so a homeless/drug addict situation as opposed to any kind of structural dangers then? Thanks for the reply!
Maybe (you) could tell me then, WHAT?? the HMS stands for. That wasn't mentioned. And for ppl not in that area, we're left wondering.
@@stacyhughes.and.her.2cats HMS Bounty is not specific to the region of Los Angeles. It means Her Majesty’s Ship. The HMS Bounty was a British ship from the 1700’s (The Mutiny on the Bounty).
Awesome vintage L.A. adventure. I have fond memories of the Ambassador, in 1984, I took the EST training there for two weekends (a fast-food version of Zen enlightenment). I would park my car behind what use to be the Brown Derby, all that was left was the floor and the brim of the derby and a few walls, so I just stood a while to soak in the history. Thanks , so enjoyable to see the surviving history of L.A.
I currently live in Koreatown and I always see the giant Gaylord sign. Its very cool learning about the history. So interesting!
Please welcome them on the channel more often! Their stories are so interesting I’d really love to hear more. I will be buying his book too!
Love the history! Thanks Scott!
Beyond interesting. These places have great history. Thanks for this, Scott.
Hi scott! I liked the story on the gaylord i enjoy reading the history on these old los Angeles buildings. Keep em coming I'm sure many others love em as well, thank you, take care.
It's nice to see some remnants of old Hollywood still exist. i bet there are some stories about Jack Webb in that bar.
The Bounty reminds me of the Smoke House. My great uncle (and godfather) Chick Taylor was a bartender at the Smoke House, forever. He worked there so long it’s where he retired from back in the early seventies.
Being right across the street from the front gates of Warner Brothers, he had some stories to tell (primarily to the adults in my family).
I grew up in the Hollywood Hills with hippies, newly minted Vietnam vets, actors, musicians, and industry people. Amazing times, with the three most frightening being the RFK assassination, the Tate murders, and the 1971 earthquake (our house was a cliffhanger and it slightly tilted).
luv these stories fascinating history beautiful old hotel, luv these dive bars like HMS Bounty
Hey Scott I just truly wanted to thank you very much for making these video's. I have always been really fascinated with pretty much anything to do with Hollywood. The way you tell the stories you make it very interesting and I love watching your channel. My wife and I was actually going to come out to LA in May 2024 that is where we picked for our vacation. But unfortunately I lost my job a few weeks ago do to the company shutting down now I don't know when we will be able to come out to LA but I will be out there one day lol. I would just like to say thank you again for everything that you do. I would love to meet you one day. I hope that you and your family and friend's have a blessed day and keep up the good work.
Scott Love the old Hollywood stories❤. What a beautiful hotel. The bar looks so old Hollywood. Thank you for the memories ❤️
Love your videos and knowledge of Hollywood! ❤️
Such a treat to savour The Gaylord lobby on the way to the loos. Ps you snuck in a glimpse of the legendary Brown Derby that was once next door!
What a cool bar and building. A Jack Web hangout? WOW! Thanks!
I love this! I used to live just a couple blocks away from there. I could see the Equitable building from my bedroom window and often walked the area, though I was too young for The Bounty then. That was before they tore down the Ambassador Hotel which still tears at my heartstrings.
Thank you for yet another great video and small tour of my old neighborhood.
The romanticism of the areas inside that building, holding memories of glamorous days.
The Bounty is just a great vivacious sounding place.
Glad to get a glimpse.
The hopes and dreams people had coming there!
Alluring
The nostalgia is bittersweet
Love your old Hollywood history story.
Cool! The Gaylord is such a beautiful building. Have never been inside, but have marveled at it, when passing by. From the freeway, also, I think you can see the sign, it’s name. It’s a beautiful old building.
OMG. James Barlett is wearing a jumper that's from Watford in England. I grew up
there.
Please keep the videos coming! This is my favorite channel. I've walked every square inch of LA and this way of exploring is much cheaper...lol. I love LA and Dearly Departed Tours! You're a legend Scott. I used to live in Desert Hot Springs...please don't ask. It was a transistional period and now I live in Boulder, CO. Please keep it up!
aw... you know Desperate Hot Springs is on it's way back. It really is. Thanks for watching, K.
I believe you Scott. My late father lived at the Sands Rv Park which is high end for the "a_s end" of the Coachella Valley. Me and my late father had dinner at the Capri Italian Restaurant and they told us all the celebrities used to go there in the 50's & 60's. The Capri still looks like it did from all those years ago. It's old school so if you make it to the DHS check out the Capri for nostalgia and good food.
I love when you fascinate me with unknown knowledge. Excellent background information. Thank you Scott!!😊
It's sad so many landmarks are torn down. It's history!!!
How nice to see Troy included! :) wow, those old places are sooo cool!
The video is second to seeing you all. Great place and what a great piece of history. I love the dive bar hangout feel of the Bounty. A must next time I’m in LA. Thanks Scott.
Nightime video, nice 🌛 I loved seeing these places and nice to meet your friends. Thanks 💫
I lived at the Gaylord my first year in LA and gained 20 lbs from eating the best food at HMS bounty 😂. I miss that little pool!
Amazing video as always - thank you Scott! That’s great you still meet up with your team from Dearly departed (so glad to see Terry, a face I remember from my tour with you!) a nice memory from my favourite part of my LA stopovers on my way home!
Very cool Scott❤
Great place and Great stories!! Thanks to all ❤️
GREAT video! Love the format you used for this installment in the bar and recording the stories. This is fabulous!
Live a block away from here...
Would love even more to live at the Gaylord!
If I could go back to any place in LA it would be the Ambassador and the Cocoanut Grove...say around 1940. ❤
HMS Bounty is a favorite watering hole for my neighbors and I; love hanging in Jacks old booth and wondering if he is around.
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Thanks Scott, loved this video!
💪♥️
Fabulous, thank you for the video ❤
Thanks for this interesting bit of Hollywood History!
Oh my this was a good one too!!! Thanks for sharing
What a cool place. I bet there are some heavy vibes there. Love the old fashioned booths.
I solicited an invitation onto the set of "Leprechaun 3" (I think it was) in order to get into the Ambassador, circa 1994. The ballroom was chained up, couldn't see much there. There was an 'x' carved into the kitchen floor to mark the spot where RFK bled, and when I walked in a crew member with a huge blunt was telling someone on his cell phone "Hey, man. I'm gettin' stoned right where Bobby Kennedy was assassinated!" The lounge and front desk looked exactly like they did in "The Graduate". The Grove (which was incredibly cool) was where they were actually filming. When the creepy Leprechaun walked in (in full costume and make-up) I got the hell out of there. But so glad I got to see it.
Remarkable that they havent changed it. One of 2 remaining local bars in my town recently shut down. The lady that owned it bless her heart is 85 and tried in vain for years to find a buyer that would keep it in original form. We're talking 40+ years of history. A classic Florida dive bar just a block off the beach. She finally threw in the towel a month ago. Some developer swooped in and gutted the place. Its being turned into a soulless phony honky tonk type place. One of those that tries to look classic and rustic but is obviously not. the sentimental stuff was taken by regulars so thats a small positive. Just a shame. All of Florida is slowly going this way. Gutted and robbed of its soul.
It's a damned shame that the Ambassador wasn't maintained and/or restored. Sounds like such a historic place!
Trump tried to restore the bottom level, and the Coconut Grove . City rejected all proposals.
Rfk died there in ambassador fact
Thanks for the video always very informative.
The Brown Derby restaurant was nearby. It was shaped like a derby hat and brownish gold in color.
I remember the day the hauled the derby sign away...
Nothing is better for insomnia than Scott Michael's TH-cam videos at 1:30am.. I must devour Gourmet Ghosts...
wow so cool i like jack webb also i lear something new i did not know Gaylor was a arpment hotel too all i think was the Gaylor was on tv ty for video yall have a good week
Always interesting stories
(Any) story that gentleman told would sound better bc of his accent.
I get so excited when I see Scott has a new vlog. They're always fascinating!
Really great video. Thanks.
The Roosevelt hotel fascinates me
That's no dive, it's a great bar! And what Lovely people you have introduced to us!❤
😊 I just watched Carrie again about an hour ago... LOL. Now every time I see it I look for Terry 🙂
I miss the Bounty. But I was always scared to go to the bathroom. It is creepy down there.
HMS Bounty can't be to bad if its still around.
Amazing video from Brazil 🇧🇷
Cool , thank you Scott. Kathy Dupont, St.Augustine Fl.
Thank you Scott I thought this was interesting. I can't wait to see what you have in store for Halloween
Scott they filmed the movie Leprechaun 3 at the Ambassador Hotel!!
Now, that’s my kind of bar!
❤😅Now THAT'S a bar! What a great video!!!😊❤
THANK YOU SCOTT, I HAVE ENJOYED EACH AND EVERY VIDEO.
LOOKING FOR MORE!!!
K,❤
Another great one scott
Very cool info Scott
'The Gaylord'😅haha, love it.
My great great uncle was hanged for his part in the mutiny on the HMS bounty, his name was John milward
I had to borrow my hubby's phone to watch more (gigs are getting low). These video's can't be as easy as it looks! Thanks for working so hard!
Great video. 😃
I couldn’t stand to be in there very long with that awful buzzing.
I wonder if The Gaylord is Los Angeles' "Chelsea Hotel" ? rich Kooks, artists , ex-actors , writers , poets , etc. That bar looks very chill 'n cool !
That was interesting
Keep doing those subtle drops. I came directly from The Ambassador vid to here. Nice job! Dying to see this, as The Haunted Mansion aging recording would say. Thanks, Scott.
Interesting stories good video . I didn’t even realize it was the end of the video pretty good .
Umm...What the heck? 6:19 i'm pretty sure hes telling the story of Charles Starkweather. And the girl who claimed innocence as soon as they got caught was named Caril Ann Fugate. She got off scott free and Starkweather got the electric chair. If thats not the actual story hes referring to then thats a seriously creepy coincidence!
He said this happened in 1932 and Starkweather wasn't born until 1938. Just a very creepy coincidence.
Another great video! Thanks
Great video! I love old Hollywood stirues! What is the rental price on one of those units? I would be nervous living with ghost.
Never knew about the Gaylord. Cool.
Love the Bounty. I’m Toronto’s Dive Bar Mike. I have to visit L.A. old time bars.
0:58 "we don't go don't there anymore. there was a time when we did."
growing up a few blocks from there it's so sad to see. it wasn't like that when i was a kid. when you're a child growing up you think things were going to get better and it's so sad to see such a beautiful place deteriorate.
Alway loved your channel Scott from day one. You have excellent knowledge in all u do
Yes the bounty is the best. Kind of an underground cool spot to hang. Great to see it’s still there. You should check out the Langham Apartments 7th and Normandie. It has some great ole Hollywood history
That was pretty kool...thanks
I wanted to live there a rent wasn't bad, but need exalent credit 😎
Wild! My deceased husband was named Gaylord but he never used that name. He went by his middle name.
I used to see this hotel all the time growing up going down Wilshire Blvd
Love bars like this. Lucky to have found a few in my own city (DC).
Thanks for sharing…!
Such interesting original architecture in LA/Hollywood.
Still neat to see, but wonder what it all looked like back in the day when my grandfather was a bartender at the Florentine Gardens back in the 40's.
Interesting but I should’ve took a Dramamine before I watched 😂😁🤷♀️
Great video. Well I’ll be flying out to LA next week, I’m going to check Musso and franks if they have any matchbooks
Thanks Scott
I used to love eating at the Bounty and going into the lobby of the Gaylord. The display case with Gaylord artifacts was fascinating. Sometimes there would be an old lady sitting in the lobby. Probably a resident. I wonder what the inside of an apartment looks like.
Thank you for this Scott.
I had heard about hotels in LA with more than their share of tragic occurrences.
Everyone knows that John Belushi died at the Chateau Marmont. Janis Joplin died at the then Landmark.
The horrible history of the Cecil especially the tragic death of Elisa Lam and the fouling of the water there.
I honestly never heard of this hotel's past. Very informative thank you.
Elisa Lam story is unreal as they have the footage of her in the Hotel freaking out, then she ends up in the Water Tank which was impossible for her to open it up, will be a mystery I think for ever.
Also, The Knickerbocker Hotel has stories too. I first learned about it back when E! had Mysteries and Scandals and then did further reading on my own (I was in my teens and in high school) and I couldn't get enough. Absolutely fascinating.
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I still think of Elisa Lam. How on earth did she meet her demise.
If one place has tormented spirits it's LA
I love the lobby in the gaylord! I love history!
Good times at the Gaylord 👍
Mr. Bartlett is a silver fox
spooky walk-thru. ❤
Fabulous, why can't they have landmark building's listed, as think it's what keeps history alive
What a beautiful hotel
Thank you, Scott! Please say "Hi" for me to my fave background actress and Hollywood Gal, Terry Bolo!!