Background
Harold Koplar was born February 27, 1915. His father, Sam Koplar, built the Park Plaza Hotel in 1929.
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Harold Koplar
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Harold Koplar was raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, graduating from Soldan High School before going on to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied architecture and engineering but left without graduating.
Career
Early life and education Koplar linked together and managed the Chase Park Plaza Hotel in Saint In 1959, he launched the television station KPLR-television in a converted apartment building near the hotel. He established a development at Lake of the Ozarks in 1964 that includes the Lodge of Four Seasons hotel, two golf courses, a marina, and Spa Shiki. In 1966 he was listed as part-owner of the troubled midtown landmark Continental Life Building, along with Saint Louis mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes and nationally known defense attorney Morris Shenker, who was also Koplar"s brother-in-law.
Death and afterward On May 3, 1985, Harold Koplar was found unconscious in an indoor lap pool in his home.
He was rushed to the hospital and declared dead of a massive heart attack. Funeral services were held at Temple Emanuel in Saint Louis and he was interred in the Koplar family mausoleum at New Mount Sinai Cemetery, Affton, Missouri.
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