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The first Academy Awards presentation took place at brand-new Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, in Blossom Room on May 16, 1929.

Today that same hotel, albeit with a recent multi-million dollar restoration, is only historic hotel in Hollywood still serving travelers, and one of only three such properties in Los Angeles area. This year marks Roosevelt's 75th Anniversary.

Amenities that those original Hollywood movie celebrities missed are new nightclub, Feinstein's at Cinegrill, with state-of-the-art sound and lighting, top entertainment and cuisine. We wonder what Janet Gaynor, Emil Jennings, and Clara Bow would have thought of Precor elliptical trainers, Star Trac treadmills, and free weights in multi-gym fitness center?

The Hollywood Roosevelt was dream of local real estate baron, Charles E. Toberman, who wanted to create a hotel befitting rapidly growing film world and its attendant social circles. The name of 26th President of United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was chosen to convey buoyant optimism of Hollywood throng at time. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford were on committee that formulated hotel because they, too, wanted a showplace in Hollywood.

Across from Grauman's Chinese Theatre on legendary Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Roosevelt is now on National Register of Historic Places. One step into lobby lounge area, with its massive European brass chandelier - originally holding candles - and high, ornately carved and painted ceilings and one can see why. The same intricate ceiling work dominates Blossom Room, which also has Mexican tile wainscoting and three original seven-foot double entry doors of carved oak. Public area floors combine saltillo and Mexican pottery tiles, stained oak and thick, deco-patterned carpets. The balcony wall features historic black and white Hollywood photography, and soft piano jazz wafts throughout.

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Leave your misconceptions of tee-pees and feathered hats at home because only place you'll see those items are on display in a shop. As a true oasis in middle of nowhere, Pechanga Hotel and Casino offers more than just a weekend getaway. It's hidden among endless hills of dry brush in a rural town by name of Temecula, in southern California, known for its vineyards. (Click photos to book The Pechanga Hotel and Casino.)

Upon entering hotel, I passed by copper-colored statues of Pechanga band of LuiseñBook The Pechanga Resorto Indians. The characters portrayed are participating in rituals common in their culture. One of statues is caught frozen in time; he's artistically drawing some sort of tribal message on a rock near a waterfall.

Continuing inward, I walked along a covered illusionary bridge surrounded by flowing water. The pleasant trickle prepared my ears for clinking of many slot machines. The automatic doors opened and immediately I was sucked into exciting world of entertainment. On my right was entrance to Pechanga's 90,000 square foot casino, but deciding to save money I went to front desk to check in.

I learned that 14-floor hotel boasts 522 spacious rooms. I was fortunate enough to be housed in a one-bedroom suite on 12th floor, one level below rooftop lounge. After inserting my magnetic keycard, I entered room, surprised to find suite seemed more like a luxurious apartment in uptown New York.