HOTEL VALLEY HO
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Hotel Valley Ho is a historic hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Also called the Valley Ho and, for 28 years, the Ramada Valley Ho, the hotel was
originally designed by Edward L. Varney, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright. It first opened in 1956 with a forward-looking and futuristic
design. Movie stars and famous baseball players stayed, and the building quickly became known for its trendsetting guests and its
fashionable atmosphere. The success of the venture resulted in expansion in 1958, with two additional two-story wings of guest rooms
extending to the north. Though initially proposed by Varney, a central tower of guest rooms, rising over the lobby, was not built.
The Hotel Valley Ho is a AAA "Four Diamond Award" winner and a member of "Preferred Hotels & Resorts".
Author and architect Alan Hess called the hotel "one of the best-preserved mid-century hotels in the country".
The Foehls knew many in the Hollywood film industry, and a number of film stars stayed at the hotel. In late December 1957, Robert
Wagner and Natalie Wood celebrated their wedding reception at the hotel. Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Bing Crosby, Frankie Avalon,
Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Marilyn Monroe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Tony Curtis were known to
have stayed there. Sometimes late at night, Jimmy Durante would come down from his room to play the piano in the lounge for other
sleepless guests. The Foehls ran the hotel very closely—they lived on the premises.

Local Scottsdale corporation Motorola used the hotel to house its transferred employees while they looked for permanent residences.
Some of the baseball players, coaches, and managers taking part in the spring training Cactus League of Arizona stayed at the hotel,
including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Leo Durocher, the latter requesting Room 103 every time he visited, for its nearness to the
lobby Chicago-based sports reporter Dave Hoekstra writes that he and his "Bleacher Bum" colleagues did not have enough money to stay
under the same roof as the baseball players they were watching, and instead crowded into rooms at the Safari motel next door (since
razed). Hoekstra notes that, throughout the 1960s, "the Ho was the high-roller place in the Sun Valley".
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