By Emma Krasov
Image: courtesy Jules Older. Beach Blanket Babylon 25th Anniversary Silver Skyline hat
There are always things to behold in the largest atrium lobby in the world at Hyatt Regency San Francisco. Hotel guests never tire of taking photographs from every side of the aluminum sculpture by Charles O. Perry, Eclipse, created in 1973 and standing at 35 feet.
Its namesake Eclipse Café with signature cocktails and cool minimalist ambiance is a popular hangout for tourists and city dwellers alike.
Holiday season brings in crowds to admire thousands of cascading Christmas lights and artificial snow falling from the ceiling.
These days, the ever-popular Hyatt Culture Club presents a display of San Francisco iconic institutions who partner with Hyatt for the first quarter of 2012 providing discounts for the hotel guests.
The thematic San Francisco Icons exhibition in the Hyatt lobby through March 31 features Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon, the world’s longest running musical revue; Cable Cars, running in San Francisco since 1912, and Ghirardelli Chocolates, a manufacturer and marketer of premium chocolate products since 1852.
Beach Blanket Babylon mannequin wears 25th Anniversary Silver Skyline hat, 13 feet wide, seven feet deep and 24 feet high. It weighs 350 pounds and the brim alone required over 60 yards of taffeta and over 200 ostrich feathers.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s exhibit celebrates the invention and technology of the iconic cable car and features a life-size photo backdrop.
Ghirardelli Chocolates shows off 160 years of history with vintage advertising and products, and educational information on the chocolate making process.
In the second quarter of 2012, Hyatt will celebrate Golden Gate Bridge’s 75th Anniversary with archival displays and lectures.
In the third quarter, The ExplOratorium will revisit the hotel with a three month interactive display of some of the museum’s most popular artifacts.
By the end of the year, a snow village display will come back to the grand atrium lobby with snow falling three times a day.
Hyatt Regency San Francisco is located by the Embarcadero Center, and at the beginning of the California Street Cable Car line, in close proximity to Financial District, Downtown, Chinatown, North Beach, Union Square, South of Market, AT&T Park (home of the SF Giants) and Embarcadero’s waterfront walking and jogging trail.
For more information, and to reserve your stay at Hyatt Regency San Francisco, visit www.sanfranciscoregency.hyatt.com.
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