Talk:Garden of Allah (building)

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"The destruction of the Garden of Allah is referred to in Joni Mitchell's song Big Yellow Taxi in the famous line, 'They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,' though in fact the building was not replaced by a parking lot." Not only was the building not replaced by a parking lot, but to the best of my knowledge, the teenaged Canadian Roberta Joan Anderson, later Joni Mitchell, had never been to L.A. while the Garden of Allah was still standing, so this seems like a bit of a stretch, and apparently the person who added it has no citation. If someone has something citable for this, then great, add it back. - Jmabel | Talk 17:34, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

The book by David Wallace, "Lost Hollywood" offers the Joni Mitchell connection in a chapter on the Garden of Allah. However, there is nothing in the song's lyrics that hint the line is about the notorious hotel —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.254.208.201 (talk • contribs) 15 December 2006.

This is not a comment about the veracity of the Joni Mitchell tale or whether it should have been cut from the article, of which I have no knowledge or opinion, but how is it discredited by the fact that Joni Mitchell had not been to LA while the building was still standing? She couldn't have heard about it or read about it? --Crankley (talk) 21:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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What is the basis for "originally known as the Garden of Alla"? I'm pretty certain the pun was there from the first. Is there any citation for this? - Jmabel | Talk 06:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC)