The majority of the photos I’ve come across of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel feature crowds of people, especially during its peak years, the 1920s and ‘30s. So it’s nice to see what the place actually looked like without swanky partygoers getting in the way. I do like all that detailing on the walls above those Arabianesque arches, and those black light fixtures that would have been perfect for Rick’s Café Americain in “Casablanca.”
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