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Built in lavish Victorian style in 1886 atop Bacon Hill, the Raymond Hotel was the most regal feature on the skyline in the San Gabriel River Valleyaa sundown silhouette of the wealth and prominence that had coalesced in the Pasadena area. It became the base of activities for Eastern tycoonsa families enjoying the balmy Southern California climate, even fostering the development of the winter mansions on Orange Grove Avenue. After the original 200-room hotel with 80 chimneys burned down on Easter Sunday in 1895, the second 300-room Raymond Hotel opened in 1901. The pioneering orange groves on the sprawling grounds gave way to a golf course. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Chaplin are just two examples of the early-20th-century celebrities who stayed there. This visually stunning collection of images is a mere sample of the vintage professional photography that exists of South Pasadenaas iconic landmark.

Book details

• Full title: South Pasadena's Raymond Hotel
• Author: Rick Thomas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127
• EAN: 9780738559193
• ISBN: 0738559199
• ID: 11469017
• Publisher: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Weight: 386 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 165 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: November 2008

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