The Gaylord and HMS Bounty - LA Conservancy

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• GAYLORD APARTMENTS
• THE GAYLORD APARTMENTS: LUXURY, SOCIALISM, AND L.A.'S FIRST FAILED CO-OP
• GAYLORD MI APARTMENTS FOR RENT
• THE GAYLORD AND HMS BOUNTY
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• 1330 N. GAYLORD ST.
• GAYLORD APARTMENTS1401 GAYLORD STDENVER, CO 80206
• APARTMENTS FOR RENT {DISPLAY:BLOCK;}@MEDIA SCREEN AND (M-WIDTH: 768PX){{DISPLAY:LE;}}GAYLORD, MI

GAYLORD APARTMENTS

Gaylord Apartments is a fay owned bs that tak pri providg our tenants wh high qualy hog at affordable pric.

We have vted signifint rourc to the Gaylord muny cludg workg wh the cy and state on repurposg a vant office buildg at 111 Michigan Ave to an attractive 10 un apartment buildg the heart of downtown. Our other apartments are loted fay iendly neighborhoods wh walkg distance of downtown Gaylord and clu eher a two r rport or garage for your vehicl. We have viewed the opportuny to velop high qualy hog the cy of Gaylord as a wise fancial vtment as well as ntributg to the renaissance of our hometown.

We rpect our neighbors, both mercial and rintial, as well as our tenants and strive to make Gaylord a better place to live. Many of our tenants are profsnals relotg to Gaylord and our properti are often the first imprsn they have of the Alpe Village.

THE GAYLORD APARTMENTS: LUXURY, SOCIALISM, AND L.A.'S FIRST FAILED CO-OP

Our goal is to make your experience wh Gaylord Apartments a posive one.

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Henry Gaylord Wilshire, known as Gaylord to his iends, was a man of many hats. Gaylord was a prototype of a strange and paradoxil breed of man, the liberal polician of great wealth who would someday le Ameri. Gaylord was born Ccnati 1861.

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He sent Gaylord to Harvard, but the ntrary young man only lasted one year.

Gaylord Wilshire, . In 1884 Gaylord, now sportg what was to be his signature sr-verg Van Dyck beard, moved to the small cy of Los Angel.

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After his loss and several bs setbacks he left Los Angel, and followed Hannah to an unsuccsful stab at a seat the Brish parliament and a spl wh the still radil Hannah, a more morate Gaylord returned to now-boomg Los Angel 1895. Gaylord palized on this succs by placg a seri of garish billboards all along the trolley le nng parallel to Wilshire, censg lol nservativ cludg L.

Gaylord lost tert the subdivisn and moved on to his te love: sh*t stirrg.

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Although his magaze prted many fluential piec, cludg excerpts of Sclair Lewis' "The Jungle, " s mocratizg cheap price meant lost money and Gaylord was soon need of sh. 1 It seems that Henry Gaylord Wilshire, one of the first limoe liberals, was a ltle b of both.

GAYLORD APARTMENTS

In the 1920s, while the elrly Gaylord hawked his ventn mail-orr talogu, no part of Los Angel was hipper than the namake street he had long lost tert .

They hired the firm of Walker and Eisen to sign a thirteen-story, early renaissance-spired apartment buildg, and nstctn began January of buildg was named after Gaylord, and s character mimicked the ntradictory forefather more ways than one.

Though already a long standg tradn on the east ast, -ops, or "own-your-owns" as they were phily lled, were new to the Wt Coast, and the Gaylord's bs manager G. Aerial view of the Gaylord Apartments, .

GAYLORD APARTMENTS

21 all apartments the magnificent Gaylord, pletely furnished, will be sold as ''Own Your Own Apartment''.

The Gaylord offered weekly classil mic programs performed by the popular, all-female "Gaylord Tr, " who, along wh a dramatic rear, also performed on lol rad statns on hours sponsored by The Gaylord.

GAYLORD APARTMENTS

In July 1924, The Gaylord Aparments sponsored a rad program featurg young talents | Los Angel Tim, July 19, 1924. Lilly lived at the Gaylord, toastg his Harvard-grad dghter, Ruth, and her new blue-blood hband at a fay receptn the ballroom. The sus, along wh stgglg sal and equent (and shady) chang ownership, eventually forced the Gaylord to receivership.

In 1930, the Co-op was dissolved and the buildg beme a tradnal long and short term rental apartment the change ownership, the Deprsn, and even the stick up of the ont sk clerk by a "particularly good lookg" lady2 and her two male acplic, took ltle lter off the Gaylord's addrs. Art exhibs, mil recals, bridg, Republin fundraisers, and war relief teas were held, and the high-toned and famo slipped om the madns of the Ambassador's famed Conut Grove nightclub across the street to The Gay Room, which opened on the ground floor 1948.

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Wh the assassatn of Bobby Kennedy there 1968, and the shiftg of the ele wtward, the Gaylord beme jt another apartment buildg jt another crime-ridn part of Los Angel. In 2006, when the long funct Ambassador was torn down to make way for the Robert Kennedy Communy School, a star-studd wake was held at the still btlg Gaylord and HMS Bounty. The Brown Derby n be seen the foreground of The Gaylord | Courty of the Los Angel Public Library.

TodayThe Gaylord today enjoys a send life as a fad relic on Wilshire Boulevard btlg, mocratic, and msy Koreatown. In a way, the multi-cultural middle and workg class populatn who now liv at the Gaylord reprents more of the socialist ial than Henry Gaylord Wilshire uld have ever tly imaged.

The lobby of The Gaylord still exus a kd of elegance | Photo: Hadley Mear.

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Wilshire Boulevard and The Gaylord today | Photo: Hadley Mear.

The thirteen-story Gaylord apartment buildg opened 1924 directly across Wilshire om the Ambassador Hotel.

GAYLORD APARTMENTS1401 GAYLORD STDENVER, CO 80206

Some claim was named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire, the founr of Wilshire Boulevard. Uns the Gaylord were marketed as "own-your-own" apartments, wh large kchens and a central reigeratn system that allowed tenants to eeze their own ice cub.

The Los Angel Tim lled the Gaylord one of the largt and most pretent apartment ho the untry.

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The ntil-themed HMS Bounty rtrant on the ground floor opened 1962 a space formerly occupied by The Gay Room and later The Secret Harbor.

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Sign at entrance to Gaylord Apartments. Gay·lord (gā′lôrd′)n. Used as a disparagg term for a gay man.