Vibe Hotel
The Vibe Hotel was originally known as the “Movie Town Motel” and built in 1952 by Italian immigrant Antonio Pinelli. It is located on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles California. This is considered to be part of the “Hollywood Strip” that runs through the heart of Hollywood beneath the Hollywood sign and past Hollywood and Highland where the Kodak Theater is now the permanent home to the Oscars every year.
Back in the late fifties and early sixties this motel was a stop over for many Hollywood industry types because of its location proximate to the studios. It is said that many young starlets have lost their innocence on the casting couch in these rooms including Marilyn Monroe. It is also said that Elvis had visited the motel to see a sick friend who was staying there in the early 1960’s. Many TV and film scenes have been shot at the Vibe Hotel including a recent TV episode of “Shark” starring James Woods.
The Vibe Hotel has 34 rooms that have a retro design motif with bright colors, tile and furniture all reminiscent of the fifties and sixties.
The motel has seen many eras of Los Angeles from the slick fifties, to the groovy sixties, to the disco seventies, to the excessive rocking eighties, to the earthquake and riots of the nineties when it fell into disrepair as gangland and gang activities spread into this area of Los Angeles, then into the early 2000’s when Hollywood has seen a huge makeover and restoration of Hollywood landmarks when the Movie Town Motel was remodeled and brought back to life as a retro funky motel that is now the Vibe Hotel.