Books
August, 1970
Fifty years ago, the Cocoanut Grove opened with a decor hallmarked by a tropic zone of palm trees and monkeys. Today, with a new name--the Now Grove--and sans cocoanuts and chimps, the club has gone Late Las Vegas. The change has been glitteringly grafted onto the venerable Ambassador Hotel on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard; its new façade and interior done up in World's Fair Modern cheerfully ignore the parent hotel's Spanish motif that incongruously surrounds it. Aesthetics aside, the newly t...
