Garden of Allah (building) - in Popular Culture

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  • 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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