 At the hotel's north side was a five-story building containing a 1,000-car garage and exhibition hall.To the south was the hotel's lavishly landscaped garden designed by Ralph Ellis Gunn, a terrace and an immense swimming pool measuring 165 by described as the world's biggest outdoor pool, which accommodated exhibition waterskiing and featured a three-story-high diving platform with an open spiral staircase.Despite protests by local preservationists, the Shamrock was demolished June 1, 1987.