In Popular Culture
- A few years before its demise, a former resident, Pamela Moore, wrote a book, Chocolates for Breakfast, the story of an adolescent girl who lives at the Garden of Allah with her actress mother in the early 1950s.
- Herman Wouk called the Garden "Rainbow's End" in Youngblood Hawke, his novel about a successful writer who goes to Hollywood.
- Don Henley sang about it in his song, The Garden of Allah.
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a postcard to himself while staying at the hotel part of the residence.
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