European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Reshaping Seattle the space Neetlje built for Lite 1962 world s fait dominates Seattle s Skyline. Mount Rainier la in the background. By George Tibbits associated press ill Delker Maneu vers his my around Iho hard hats and construction Cones his rider headed Lor the Hoar of Scallo s downtown financial District. He nineties a Lille when asked about Woik ii they really wanted to make a super horror movie Hal would scare inc masses in would t be with a monster Oelker says. It would be Wilh downtown  no doubt about in. Downtown Seattle s a bit untidy these Days. Depending on whom you Lalk to the score of major construction projects has produced either a Boom own with a shiny future or a disaster zone. Two major streets third Avenue and Pine Street Are ripped up to build a 1 3-mile underground bus Tunnel a $666 million undertaking that is Oneal the biggest Public works projects in King county history. Whore once a Monorail unloaded tourists coming from the Seattle Center a coliseum about two Runnel project s Community relations coordinator and iwo other construction mitigation coordinators spend much of their time travelling up and Down Pine and third trying to solve complaints. Metro has inundated merchants and residents with explanatory pamphlets and studies and apologetic notices of closings. It has organized advisory Commilles Sot up Hollmes and juggled construction schedules to Cut Down noise and inconvenience. Ii has posted signs telling passers by that businesses Are Sli Lopen helped pay for extra police to manage traffic and worked Wilh merchants to of Flor tokens Lor free bus rides or parking. So far. No downtown business has closed solely because of the construction said Gilmore. In fact he said retail sales downtown were up 9 percent ram november through february compared to i to same period a year earlier. Nancy bans of who runs a women s clothing store a Block from Pine Street said As soon As Pine Street closed in really affected business to the Point it is evident and is scary California Symbol of an Era is in decline Page 16 the stars and stripes by Judith Cummings new York times he ambassador hotel in los Angeles once the Sile of merrymaking by movie stars and pronouncements by politicians faces an Uncertain future. The 66-year-old hotel whose Pink stucco wings and Coconut Grove nightclub once helped to make Wilshire Boulevard the most fashionable address in los Angeles closed 350 of its 500 guest rooms in May. Ii awaits either a buyer or the wrecker s Ball. For a year the hotel s owner the family of j. Myor Schine the Chicago hotel and theater tycoon who died in 1971, has unsuccessfully sought a buyer for the ambassador which sits like an aged grand Duchess on 23 acres atop a Rise in Wilshire Boulevard not far from downtown. The family wants to sell it to someone Wio would continue to run in has a hotel. Bui they May be giving up Hope Early in june ambassador hotel properties the owner asked the City Lor a demolition permit. My understanding is the owners do not intend to tear the place Down except As a last resort sad Margaret Burk a hotel spokesman who wrote a history of the ambassador Are the stars out tonight they have had some buyers who have shown an inheres a bulk said. But everyone wants to know what the potential is Lor leveling the hotel and Starling  preservationist groups have until the end of july to ask the City Council to bar demolition of the ambassador by declaring in a historic landmark the hotel slopped trying to make a go of the sunday. July 19, 19q7 Coco Anul Grove As a nightclub 15 years ago. Other promoters tried to revive it Over inc next lev years but none succeeded. The latest retrenchment at the ambassador a Cost cutting move closed All the guest rooms in Itie hotel s seven Story mom building leaving Only 150 Bungalow rooms or go cols the step mirrors the decline of the area surrounding the famous Boulevard once known As the Miracle mile its Best years Are behind it and the Boulevard is now surrounded by a rundown neighbourhood thai reflects the Wear of the years and successive Waves of newcomers arriving with Little bul dreams Lor a prosperous Lile the ambassador wa3 Par of thai dream built in 1921, i quickly became a Symbol of the roaring 20s gaiety and 30s frivolity in Defiance of the depression. The Coco Anul Grove became the nightspot of Choice for Hollywood s stars f. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were among the hotel s guests Errol Flynn and Charlie Chaplin shocked Conven Honal society with then Hirth Jinks at i he hotel Charles Lindbergh was cel Coral a there 60 years ago after his Clurn from the Lisl Oto Light from new York to Paris the publisher William Randolph Hearst look up Long Lerm residence and movie legends trom Rudolph Val Ennu la Glona Swanson graced its landscaped bungalows but the ambassador has also seen Darter limes the darkest perhaps was the night in 1968 when sen Robert f. Kennedy after winning the democratic presidential primary in California was assassinated in its Kitchen pantry As television cameras recorded the scene