List of Awards and Nominations Received By Bob Hope - Honors - Memorials and Tributes

Memorials and Tributes

  • The PGA Tour's Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, which was an existing tournament (The Desert Classic) renamed in recognition of the comedian's lifelong passion for the game, 1966
  • America's Tribute to Bob Hope, a 1988 documentary taped at the Palm Desert, California, Bob Hope Cultural Center
  • In 1992, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.
  • Bob Hope Drive, streets in both Burbank (where there is also an airport named after him) and Rancho Mirage, California. The Rancho Mirage street is the location of Eisenhower Medical Center which Hope and his wife were instrumental in creating.
  • The United States Air Force named a C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft the Spirit of Bob Hope.
  • Bob Hope: 50 Years of Hope, an exhibition of Hope's service of entertaining the United States military at the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton, Ohio
  • Bob Hope Square (naming of the intersection at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles to commemorate Hope's 100th birthday, May 29, 2003)
  • Bob Hope Airport: Hope had joked with his family that he wanted an airport named for him after hearing in 1979 that Orange County officials had renamed their airport after John Wayne. On November 3, 2003 the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority voted unanimously to rename the facility and on November 18, 2003 the Glendale, and Burbank city councils voted unanimously to approve it. Pasadena followed on December 10. The FAA three-letter designation BUR did not change. A rededication ceremony took place on December 17, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight.
  • The historic Fox Theater in downtown Stockton, California, was renamed the Bob Hope Theater in his honor. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300) of the U.S. Military Sealift Command was named after the performer in 1997. It is one of very few U.S. naval ships that were named after living people.
  • Asteroid 2829 Bobhope
  • The Bob Hope Theatre, an amateur theatre (although professional musicians receive payment) in Eltham, London, where he was born. He personally funded the theatre in 1980 to develop further projects for the venue.
  • Blue plaque at 44, Craigton Road Eltham, London, Hope's place of birth.
  • The Bob Hope Theatre, an on-base movie theatre and lecture hall at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California.
  • Hope had a long and close association with Southern Methodist University in Dallas. His donations of over $800,000 enabled the opening of the Bob Hope Theatre in the Owen Fine Arts Center of the Meadows School of the Arts, and two theater scholarships and an award are named in his honor.
  • "The Bob Hope Chow Hall", the dining facility at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa.
  • "Bob Hope Primary School", a primary school located on Kadena US Air Force Base, in Okinawa, Japan.
  • The historic Bob Hope Patriotic Hall building on Figueroa Street in Los Angeles County was named in his honor on August 3, 2003, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
  • In a bill passed by Congress in 2008, the research library at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum was renamed the Bob Hope Memorial Library.
  • At the U.S. Naval Academy, Alumni Hall is home to the Bob Hope Performing Arts Center.
  • In 2009 "A National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military" was dedicated in San Diego, California.

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