Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? If it's to learn about one of Hollywood's oldest hotels, we've got you covered. The Hollywood Roosevelt has been a hot spot for celebrities since it was built in the late '20s and continues to delight tourists and residents alike with celebrity sightings and a few hauntings, including Marilyn Monroe.

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The second half of the Plaza's history is filled with glamorous parties, rock stars, activists, billionaires, bankruptcy, a precocious 6-year-old running wild, and a slew of household names, including the Beatles, Truman Capote, Betty Friedan, and Donald Trump.

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For our inaugural episode, we take on a New York institution – the Plaza Hotel. We discuss its Gilded Age origins (ambitious, glamorous, and a wee bit violent), its rich and famous residents, and how it handled progress and change through the first half of the 20th century.

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