For those of you who indulge in daydreaming about what it would be like to sit poolside at the Garden of Allah Hotel (where my 9-book series of novels are set) this photo is probably about as near as we’ll get. I recently read a quote from columnist Lucius Beebe, who wrote, “It is conventional to fall into the pool. All the best people do it. It wakes one up.” which gives you an idea of those famously infamous poolside parties. The photographer was facing north toward the back of the main hotel building and those are the Hollywood Hills that we can see in the background.
Garden of Allah Hotel pool looking north toward the main house and the Hollywood Hills behind
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Thank you for this. I don’t think I have ever seen the Garden and the pool from this perspective.
It’s a pretty great shot, isn’t it? You can feel what it would be like to sit on the edge of the pool and dangle you feet into the water.
Pleasant place to get your drunk on. I mean… have a martini.
a martini…or seven…
So cool . Makes me want to read the books all over.
Norm
Having just finished the ninth book last weekend, it’s a treat to see what the pool looked like. Is the wall of I see to the left of the main building part of the Garden complex? Where would the bungalows be in relation to the pool and main building? Thanks.
Firstly Bill, thanks for reading the whole series!
Secondly, everything you can see in this photo is part of the Garden. To the far left, behind that slightly-left-leaning tree are some of the two-story bungalows. Directly on the other side of the main house was Villa 1 where F. Scott Fitzgerald stayed in 1937.
Thanks! I can absolutely picture the parties you wrote about here.