PC-002-553

A walk at Hotel Potter, Santa Barbara, California

 

 

 

 

The description on the back is: "This magnificent hotel representing an investment of a million dollars fronts on the beautiful boulevard with the Pacific Ocean just beyond it. The Santa Ynez mountains form an impressive background. On the road of a thousand wonders." The last sentence represents a railroad promotional phase. Here a walkway marked with white stones and flowering plants on either side leads past streetlights and trees to a building in the middle of the picture. The hotel, named after its owner Milo Potter, opened in 1903 and was destroyed by fire in 1921 under different ownership as the Ambassador Hotel. The entrance was on the site of the later Ambassador Park. The publisher's number 5294 and the phrase "Made in Germany" are on the back, along with another number upside down in the stampbox, 904. Between the divided back and the publisher's cessation of operations, the date of the card has to be between 1907 and 1915.

Santa Barbara; Hotel Potter; The Potter; Potter Hotel; Burton's Mound

Ambassador Park, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA

California - Santa Barbara

 

 

MS-0008

 

M. Rieder, Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

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20.71 MB