The venerable hotel has hosted the Academy Awards and served as a filming locale for numerous movies.
“Not a lifeless monument of stone and marble; it is as beautiful, as colorful, as vibrant as the city with which its destiny is linked,” trumpeted the newspaper report on Oct. 1, 1923.
A site overlooking Pershing Square at Fifth and Olive streets was chosen, and the noted Biltmore Hotel chain paid the then-unimaginably huge sum of $15 million for a 25-year renewable lease. When lit up the hallway and ballrooms glitter with opulence, and it was no surprise that a Zeppelin airship paid a visit in 1929, hovering overhead before landing at Mines Field . The crew and passengers stayed here overnight, and the hotel re-stocked the zeppelin’s kitchens before it floated away to continue its luxurious round-the-world journey.
Eight Oscar ceremonies were held in the Biltmore Bowl room in the 1930s and early 1940s, and in 1977 Bob Hope hosted the Academy’s 50th Anniversary here. Some huge black-and-white pictures from those ceremonies are in the Historic Corridor, which is lined with menus, posters, photos, and various souvenirs from the hotel’s extensive archives.
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