Pool Time at the Roosevelt

With temperatures in the 70s now, this 1956 image showing famous pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel seems appropriate. Both the hotel and the pool have been designated Historic-Cultural Monuments by the City's Cultural Heritage Commission. In 1988, famed British painter David Hockney completed a multi-million dollar mural on the bottom of the Tropicana Pool. Unfortunately, none of the photos in today’s post show that mural. Instead, you see three chaps lounging by the life-ring hanging on a palm tree. I wonder how often it got tossed into the pool during a drunken revel?



Another circa 1950’s shot of the pool, same angle:



These two ladies were kind enough to pose for the camera before they began soaking up some of that Hollywood sunshine.



A view of the pool taken during my first stay at the Roosevelt in 2008:



Like so many other Hotels in Hollywood, claims to have had the likes of Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Montgomery Clift, and other movie legends walk its historic halls. One thing that is verifiable is that the Hotel played host to the very first Academy Awards Ceremony in its Blossom Room on May 16, 1929.

See more Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel photos at my main website.