Good eye,
MP. The reason the sign looks different in the color photo may be because by that time the Royal Room had become
the Royal Scot. I think I can just barely see SCOT on the blade sign (to the right of the pink vertical line), and below the big orange
Y in YAL on Las Palmas we don't see ROOM as in your b/w photo, but three yellow letters, with the last one a T (as in SCOT
).
September 1, 1959,
The Citizen-News @ Newspapers.com
The Royal Room, which opened April 6, 1948, appears to have gone out of business in 1958 or 1959, following at least two
tragedies (the fire was December 6, 1957):
March 28, 1958,
Los Angeles Examiner @ Newspapers.com