In memory of the Garden of Allah, Bart Lytton commissioned the creation of a scale model of the hotel. He […]

Once an Oasis None of the improvements helped revived the hotel’s glory days. Its days as a hotspot were a […]

My Dear, Won’t You Have a Glass of Champagne? Errol Flynn lived at the Garden in 1935, at the start […]

Jackie Gleason Grace Kelly Luise Ranier Patricia Medina Burl Ives Leopold Stokowsk James Darren Fernando Lamas

Frank Ehrhart The buyer was Frank Ehrhart. He’d been the general manager of Mocambo, an A-list nightclub nearby on the […]

Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Buys the hotel There’s a gap in what’s known about ownership of the Garden of Allah after […]

The Goetzes Move in Declining conditions at the Garden began to take a toll. The social scene around Benchley and […]

Reagan Checks In Despite the hotel’s incipient tawdriness, Hollywood still checked in, usually ready to play. It was a favorite […]

A Succession of Owners In 1930, after Central Holding Corporation bought the Garden of Allah Hotel from William Hay, the […]

‘The Garden of Allah, Once an Oasis, Faces Kismet’ – Headline in the Los Angeles Times, April 1959