Her vision to create this spectacularly timeless hotel remains evident to this day. On opening invitations Anderson, affectionately referred to as The Pink Lady, described the property as situated “halfway between Los Angeles and the sea.”Īnderson had one very simple, yet critical motto: “Guests are entitled to the best of everything regardless of cost!” The story goes that he invested $500,000 (over $14m in today’s estimation), Green hoped to lure wealthy Easterners to retire in what were then open fields north of Los Angeles. Anderson and her son Stanley, to build a sprawling hotel in Mission Revival style on 12 acres, with white stucco exterior and terra cotta-colored roof tiles, and named it after Beverly Farms, his home in Massachusetts. Originally owned and operated by developer Burton Green, President of the Rodeo Land and Water Company, he hired female architect Margaret J. Opened on before the city even existed, the hotel had a mission to become the place people could stay at while they looked for property to buy in the area. The hotel is known for it’s privacy policy, decadent decor, refined service, iconic wallpaper, the romanticism of being swept away in the sprawling green canopies of palms and vegetation. Photos by Dawn Garcia, Cover photo approved by The Beverly Hills Hotel The Corvette is unlike any other vehicle on the market, and the Beverly Hills Hotel sets the stage for something unforgettable as it has one of the most prestigious hotel entries in all of Los Angeles. Located in the heart of Beverly Hills amid million dollar homes and the hustle and bustle of city life just a short jaunt away, the hotel has been the city escape for some of Hollywood’s most historic celebrities from Chaplin, Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe to modern day Hollywood elite.ĭriving up to the Hotel is where your journey to being transported begins, and driving up in the 2021 Corvette Stingray Coupe 3LT added that extra element of panache, sexiness, and prowess that set the tone.
That iconic place is The Beverly Hills Hotel that first opened its doors to the public in 1912.
I don’t have any family anymore.The Beverly Hills Hotel is like staying on the most exquisite movie set that dates back to Old Hollywood Glamįor those of us who have been born and raised in Los Angeles, there is one iconic hotel that oozes sophistication, the intrigue of times passed, design that makes you salivate, and a coolness factor that is inescapable. “When you don’t have anyone around you, you don’t know. “I didn’t know anything about real estate,” he said. Petersen told Gardner that his money problems began in 2014 when he received a tax bill for $71,000 after selling a home in Beachwood Canyon. More important, he retains the sort of sunny disposition necessary to survive and thrive in the orbit of those who assume themselves to be the sun itself.”
In a 2004 profile, the Los Angeles Times described him as “a living, breathing vessel of Hollywood history - barrel-chested, muscular and vigorous, his white shock of once-blond hair full as ever, his skin astonishingly undamaged by years of solar assault. Petersen also appeared the Paul Newman movies The Prize (1963) and Torn Curtain (1966), on a 1991 episode of the game show To Tell the Truth and on Richard E.
That was my job, and that’s why I enjoyed it so much.” Whitney Houston came down and she hugged and kissed me. “They treated me like I was one of them,” he told The Hollywood Reporter‘s Chris Gardner in 2017.
After that, he spent another dozen years helping out in the hotel’s PR and communications department.Īlong the way, Petersen said he grew close to the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Faye Dunaway - he said he taught her how to swim - and Johnny Carson. He began his tenure at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1959 as a lifeguard and was promoted to pool manager three years later, presiding over the pool and the cabana boys until 2001.