European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doil Magazine for tourist sin san Francisco in a Kozuik Khiu. Stuff writer 0 t in t often a hold lobby is i Musti on a tourist s  visitors to san Francisco plus a Large number of the local citizenry arc keeping the escalators packed til route to one of the architectural wonders of the Western world. This is tire lobby of the four year old Hyatt Regency a blend if lie hanging gardens of Babylon and a modern american shopping Center. Designed by John Portman of Atlanta,gil., the hotel s lobby has impressive statistics and a healthy dosage of show Biz Pizazz to keep the natives flocking to its generous confines. As a mutter of fad. In is tit in i of addressing room Wilh a Star in tin1 door granting it would have to be a very Larye dressing tin As it was Une m uie stars in the him. To Wrim ii co. Parts of the movie were shut m tin Vam. Oddly shaped  of the hotel Kilm Gers May remt Ember lighted Eleva Urs. Rising like illuminated Yoyos some Stop Ping at the 17th floor which Marks the Apex of the lobby others continuing on to uie revolving restaurant atop the 20-Storybuilding. The Hyatt urgency owes its Odd shape to the demands of the ground on fantastic sculpture uses from reflecting Pool in Hyatt Regency atrium. Which it wus built four years ago. Thelot a Hundred Yards or so from san Francisco s Imbu Scudero resembles piece of pie sliced by a Drunken Baker. Propped up in the Center of the lobby Scharles o. Perry s eight ton. 40-foot High anodized aluminium sculpture eclipse which Lih iks like a Cross Between a Lunatic Jungle gym and one of those chinese Ivory  the most Peculiar feature of the aluminium Centrepiece is that in moves audibly when Albert while s Friday after noon Tea dance orchestra sets up the proper sympathetic  the sculpture is a Pool whose Glass like surface is broken Only by the curious fingers of tourists and tots and by occasional coins thrown in to keep with the finest Trevi tradition of Home nearby is what the Public relation department likes to Call a babbling Brook but which in fact is More along trough of Concrete in which pumped water flows swiftly to the trough s lower end from where it is carried Back to the upper end for an other go around. Despite shops restaurants dance floor Brook Pool service counters and the Pudgy Centrepiece the lobby is Lar from cluttered in immensity prevents that the lobby is 300 feel Long. 170 eel across at its widest Point itch lobby like the building and its lot. Is generally triangular and i la feet High. The a to room hostelry i  i ices Range from $90 per Day for a single to $100 for a suite has a staff of More than 800. There Are 10 full time gardeners alone to lavish tender Loving care on the 15,000plants including 4.000 Ivy and pothos vines cascading from the balconies Over looking the lobby. Also included in the hotel s Flora arc 150trees icus Nita a and Bejamine some within the lobby reaching a height of25 feet. The gardeners had a Peculiar problem according to pit chief Lonnie Calhoun. Lacking sunlight in the lobby some of the plants were losing the struggle for survival until the experts conjured up a solution of Vitamin c As a substitute for the real thing. A Benefit Ball for the survivors of a san Francisco police officer who died of leukaemia 16 Days Short of retire ment brought in More than 80,000 and lured Clint Eastwood Tennessee Ernie Ford and George Kennedy to the lobby for the affair. The lobby has accommodated a free showing of the Nutcracker Ballet with the san Francisco Ballet company a Goat milking contest and Gas balloon rides which saw six people at a Lime in inc bal Loon supported Wicker Basket Drifting around High above the lobby floor. This element of charitable show Biz has Kepi the coins splashing into the Pool and the lobby floor teeming with san Francis cans and tourists. But the chief spurt among the multitudes ally milling around the Llyal Regency re Mains pure ogling. The eyes have in. Scene from towering inferno was based on hotel s Bubble elevators. Saturday May 28, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 11