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Many hotels would rather entertain a cyclone in their corridors than be patronized by a freewheeling rock group and its entourage. But Los Angeles' Continental Hyatt House, located on the Sunset Strip within minutes of no fewer than 32 record companies, has decided to take advantage of its location by welcoming-and indulging-pop musicians. The result, according to TIME'S David DeVoss, is that the garish, twelve-story hotel has become a psychedelic pantheon for anybody seeking a Woodstock ambience with a bacchanalian bounce. DeVoss's report...
...This place knows what we're involved in," says Joe Schaffner, road manager for the Temptations. Adds Ian Lloyd, lead singer for the Stories: "They make you feel a lot less paranoid than other hotels." The Hyatt's three-man security force is instructed to go easy on questioning or searching guests (and the guests' guests), no matter how strange they look or act. Says Security Chief Richard Wells: "Occasionally we'll find some lovers on the stairs or a naked girl running down the hall. We step in then because our 80-year-old guests...
Perhaps, but few of the Hyatt's conventional clientele of tourists and Japanese businessmen seem to mind. "A few months ago, when Humble Pie was here, two gray-haired ladies from Omaha were staying in the hotel," recalls Night Desk Clerk Jim Ralston. "They took naps in the afternoon so they could sit up at night and watch the circus. They just sat, chattered and poked each other in the ribs in amazement." Between the circus and the onlookers, the Hyatt is enjoying an 82% occupancy rate, 17% higher than the national hotel average. (Rates: from $21.50 per room...
...town-and a good-looking one at that. In the process he has become a multimillionaire. Once a part-time usher in a local moviehouse, he designed and was an initial owner of the $200 million Peachtree Center complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels, including the spectacular Hyatt Regency Atlanta, that has revived the city's downtown...
...will build a 315-room Holiday Inn across from the Harvard Square Post Office, with a projected completion date of June 1974, about two years before the Kennedy Library opens. And another local developer, Graham Gund, announced last month that he will build a 500-room hotel for the Hyatt Regency Corporation, to be opened by mid-1975. Both developers expect a large part of their business to come from visitors to the library...