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This atmospheric hotel, situated inside the city's oldest private club near Downtown LA's queer scene, whispers tales of film stars from Hollywood's golden years. Club rooms and a distinguished prevent characterise this institution that is over a century 's the facilities of the members-only athletic club that shine (entry is complimentary for hotel guests). Take the plunge into a heated lap pool, while indoor courts await for racquetball, squash and more. At group fitness classes such as yoga, kickboxing, pilates, and Zumba, you'll be working up a sweat with an enviably fit s with roman shades keep out the dazzling LA sunlight if you want to sleep in. Wi-Fi is free, but otherwise, rooms are purposely low walnut wood panelling and checkerboard tiled floors, Famous Players restaurant is open for breakfast daily and lunch daily except Sunday. An American-style breakfast buffet, with hot and cold dishes like hash browns, scrambled eggs and fruit, is complimentary for hotel guests.
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Hollywood Spa opened in and, before the advent of HIV and AIDS, was a major destination for gay men who had few other places to meet one another. It had private rooms, a DJ, a steam room and jacuzzi, an “adult video” lounge, a gym and a cafe. The spa boasted on its website that it hosted over , visitors a year.
"At the upscale Hollywood Spa on Ivar Way, towel-wrapped patrons can glance each other over while working out on gym equipment or sipping freshly squeezed orange juice from the cafe. Vintage Hollywood posters cover the walls, strobe lights flicker, and DJs spin the latest club music." (L.A. Times, 27 Oct, )
The spa was ordered to end in , as part of an enforcement of stringent regulations restricting sexual activity at gay bathhouses. “I don’t plan to close,” said Scott D.R. Goulet, owner of Hollywood Spa, Ivar Ave. “We adjudicated this issue two years ago. We won it then. The county was wrong,” he said. Co-owner and spa manager John Ferry told the LA Times: “We’re going to fight this thing. As far as we’re concerned, we’re the great guys. We consider the Hollywood Spa to be an important asset in terms of being a place
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"Became the most legendary of Los Angeles' bathhouses. Though located on an inconspicuous street corner, on the inside of the there was an elaborate maze, much shadowy paint, and rooms big and small. According to legend, closeted actors entered through a secret door that led to an unlit, anonymous orgy room. The also attracted an endless stream of blonde surfer types who migrated, erotically charged, from the disco down the highway. One customer of the reminisces about being 'fortunate enough to go there,' and recalls how he was always amazed by the beautiful men.' Another remembers 'walking through the large orgy room that was packed so secure with bodies you couldn't move.' Because the land floor backed onto a deli, customers could organize food through a petty window, precluding any call for to leave." (Gay L.A.)
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Sheldon Andelson, millionaire attorney and businessman, owned the It was a financially lucrative business; nevertheless, he closed the bath
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