The Ambassador's Last Stand

The LAUSD is finally taking down that ugly chain link fence in front of the Ambassador Hotel site -- making the new street-level "Rober...

Theresa Inman has been chronicling the fall of the old Ambassador Hotel and the rise of the new school on the site, and periodically sending...

It's been a while since we last checked in with the old Ambassador Hotel site -- and wow, has a lot changed. The Wilshire-adjacent sidew...

Thanks to regular Franklin Avenue reader Tess -- who's a huge Ambassador Hotel buff (she even bought an Ambassador table I had to unload...

One final look this year at the new high school on the Ambassador Hotel site -- still without a name -- as it moves closer to completion. (T...

Construction on the LAUSD's $572 million new high school on the site of the old Ambassador Hotel continues. The district says the new sc...

A year after the destruction of the final piece of the Ambassador Hotel (the Cocoanut Grove, which had survived the initial tear-down), her...

So far, the new building mimics the footprint of the old Ambassador (but what a sad sight). They continue to move fast on the construction. ...

After months of waiting, the skeleton of the new school complex is really rising fast at the Ambassador site. Curbed LA has more on the new ...

As the LAUSD prepares to break ground on a new, tiny pocket park and Bobby Kennedy memorial at the Ambassador site (see Curbed LA for full d...

I've actually been meaning to post this for months, but never had the camera handy... so here goes, the recently revised LAUSD poster fo...

Cocoanut Grove demolition, Feb. 13, 2008, 10 a.m. The demolition continues today...

(Photo by Tod Tamberg, by way of LA Observed .) And so it goes. The ghosts of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., the...

Ambassador remains, 9:45 a.m., January 22, 2008 It's possibly all over today, as the remaining pieces of the Ambassador -- mostly what...

(Pic thanks to Franklin Avenue reader Theresa Inman) The L.A. Conservancy has given up the fight to try to save the final standing elements ...

Some movement on the Cocoanut Grove (well, what's left of it) preservation front: The L.A. Times writes that the Los Angeles Unified Sc...

Cocoanut Grove at its peak. Of course, by the 1970s, Sammy Davis had turned the room into the cheesy, disco-ish "Now Grove." Which...

"Ambassador International" Talk about a fascinating find: Franklin Avenue reader Steven dug up these old drawings from 1957 of an ...

So much for even the L.A. Unified School District's token attempt at preservation at the Ambassador site. As you know, most of the Ambas...

In marketing the new Emilio Estevez-helmed " Bobby " -- about Robert Kennedy's final moments -- the producers have wisely real...

It's been nearly a year since the Ambassador Hotel was demolished . Now, groundbreaking on the new school complex that will be built on ...