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Who’s up for a tea dance at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in the Ambassador hotel on Wilshire Boulevard? I’ll meet you there – I’ll be the one chatting with the cigarette girl (she lets me have Chesterfields for cheap!)

The Cocoanut Grove nightclub which was situated at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Blvd. Usually you just see photos of the dance floor and the paper mâché palm trees (brought from the set of Valentino’s “The Sheik”) but this photo … Continue reading →

The Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel opened up in April 1921 and became famous almost immediately because of the decor. When the club’s host heard from his friend, Rudolph Valentino, that a number of the fake palm trees … Continue reading →