The Los Angeles School Ditrict bought the formerly elegant and famous Ambassador Hotel and its 24 acres in 2001, as a site for a new school, and ever since had been in a legal battle with a preservation group. That group dropped the battle for a cool $4 million. This hotel was especially famous as the site where Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen on June 5, 1968.
The whole hotel except the Cocoanut Grove nightclub came down in June, 2006.
Linda Dishman, a spokesman for the preservation group said that the what's left of the Ambassador was no longer historically significant and there are other buildings they can focus on.
The district had hoped to preserve the once-glitzy Cocoanut Grove night club where headliners such as Frank Sinatra and Bing Cosby once performed., but it was determined that it was not structurally sound enough to withstand an earthquake, so it will come down as well.
Jan. 17th Quad-City Times.
I Probably Couldn't Have Afforded to stay There Anyway. --Cooter
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