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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
At first glance I thought the letter mentioned the Garden of Allah, but on closer inspection it's actually the Garden of Eden. Anyone familiar with this place?
I looked up the address for “Puccini” (224 South Beverly Drive) on Google Maps. It's now “Ruth's Chris Steak House”, which seems to have gone out of business.
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Scott, I noticed that a lot of restaurants, when you look up on GSV are saying CLOSED because of the current situation with restaurants, but they're not necessarily out of business yet.
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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
I wonder where the actual “Garden of Eden” was?
It can't be a typo, the name is right there on the letterhead...
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What a find Scott Charles! I'm assuming that's an actual signature?
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About "The Garden of Eden."
Since the High Hopes song (which won the Best Song Oscar for 1959, by the way) was just released around this time, by Capitol Records, and the movie was to come out about three weeks later, and the fact that Sinatra mentions "Capitol Records" in this letter, I'm thinking this was a promotion party that Capitol Records arranged for the song or the movie or both, and The Garden of Eden isn't an actual place in Los Angeles, but just what they called the promotional party as it was the name of the Hotel they were trying to save in the film. It was a promotional thing. The location probably kept a secret, hence transportation provided from the Puccini location in Beverly Hills. It might've been something arranged at the Capitol Records building
Just a guess.
Also, and I have no idea, but maybe the stationery that was written on was also used in the movie as a prop?
I haven't seen the movie since VHS was in vogue.