Catherine Gudis on work in the area during hearings about the Ambassador Hotel.
Channel: SoCalStudio
Date: 2011-09-22

Catherine Gudis, Director of the Public History Program at the University of California at Riverside, talks about working with the Los Angeles Conservancy and the Wilshire Center neighborhood in collecting surveys from people door-to-door in the area during hearings about the Ambassador Hotel property and it's future. She notes the grandure and potential of the property and notes how although now it has beautiful grounds that the public is entitled to we are locked out of this property. This poses a question to LAUSD about why this is happening seeing the need for green space which is slowly disappearing in Los Angeles. What do you think? 

This interview was conducted at the Studio for Southern California History on July 7th, 2011 by Marie Cabal, Carla Calderon, George Castillo, Gabby Garcia, Michelle Lopez & Sharon Sekhon as part of the Common Ground Project.