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unusual facts about Ambassador Hotel



Miriam Allen deFord

DeFord died February 22, 1975, at her longtime home, the Ambassador Hotel at 55 Mason Street in San Francisco.

The Coo-Coo Nut Grove

The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (released November 28, 1936) is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies short animated film, set in the famed Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.


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LP Underground 2.0

In July 2003, it was switched over to a blue and white design featuring band pictures from the Ambassador Hotel photo shoot for Meteora.

Santiago Bernabéu Yeste

In 1955, acting upon the idea proposed by the L'Equipe journalist Gabriel Hanot and building upon the Copa Latina (a tournament involving clubs from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy), Bernabéu met in the Ambassador Hotel in Paris with Bedrignan and Gustav Sebes and created what was at first a loosely-constructed exhibition tournament played among invited teams, but which over time developed into what is today the Champions League.

Sime Silverman

Silverman, born in Cortland, New York, was the publisher and editor of Variety until his death from a heart attack at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard soon after launching the daily.