PC-002-854A

Ship hotel Cabrillo, Venice, California

 

circa 1906

 

Oscar Newman, Los Angeles, California

This black-and-white image on an undivided back is exactly the same as that on a postcard postmarked in 1909 that is colored. The Ship Cafe is shown on the near side of the Abbot Kinney Pier from the Venice Auditorium on the other. Its three masts with no sails and flat bottom on stilts give away its construction as a hotel and restaurant rather than a ship. It was built to suggest Juan Cabrillo's Spanish galleon and named "Cabrillo." In December of 1920 a fire that started in the dance hall on the pier destroyed the pier and its dependent structures. Many establishments were rebuilt and reopened in 1921, including the Ship Cafe shown here. The message is on this side because the back is undivided, "for the address only." The publisher's number 2558 precedes the title at the top of the message space on the right. This card has yellowish spots and ink cancellation marks on the image.

Ship Cafe; Cabrillo; Venice, California; Hotels; Hotel Ship Cabrillo; Los Angeles; Restaurants; Cafes; Piers; Ship Hotel Cabrillo

 

California - Venice - Waterfront

 

 

MS-0008

English

Oscar Newman, Publisher, Los Angeles, California

Postcard

3.5 inches X 5.5 inches

Yes

PC-002-854B

Will be home on Monday afternoon
Having a fine time saw Leila & her friend yesterday.

 

Image

TIFF

20.61 MB