Posted by Marc Wanamaker (169.232.224.133) on November 25, 2002 at 20:53:07:
I have become an Ambassador historian over the years and have an important archive of photographs and information on its history. I personally have a 'history' with the hotel having been present there since I was a child attending the Cocoanut Grove, the Round Table events, and having been part of a group of people who produced concerts in several of the ballrooms in the 1970s with such groups as Canned Heat, Buffalo Springfield, The Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin among others. Part of my professional research work involved the Dalzel Hatfield Galleries that once was at the hotel and the painters that were represented there. I also was involved with setting up a video feed from the Ambassador to the Kaleidoscope (Moulin Rouge in Hollywood)to view the Bobby Kennedy campaign the night he was assassinated. In later years I have compiled information on the famous motion picture personalities that stayed or played at the hotel since 1921. These are only a few reasons why I want the building to be preserved. It is a Los Angeles historic landmark that is one of the city's most treasured sites.