PC-000-772A

Picture postcard advertising El Cortez Sky Room, a restaurant at the top of the tallest building in San Diego at the time

 

circa 1950

 

E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

This divided picture postcard shows the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, along with the bar of the Sky Room. Built on the site of the U. S. Grant, Jr. home on Ash Street, the hotel was the tallest building (at 310 feet) in San Diego from its opening in 1927 until 1963. The El Cortéz was designed by the firm of Albert R. Walker (1981-1958) and Percy Eisen (1885-1946), the architects responsible for the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The Art Deco Sky Room, shown on the right, was added on the 15th story in 1940, with glass walls completely around the dining room, offering a view of San Diego. This card is essentially the same as PC-000-771 but with what appears to be a drawing instead of a photograph of the Sky Room, with patrons drawn in at the bar and at dining tables, and lights from ships on San Diego Bay.

El Cortez Hotel; San Diego; Sky Room; Hotels; Bars; Restaurants; Percy Eisen; Albert R. Walker

702 Ash Street

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

El Cortez Hotel, San Diego, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

Yes

PC-000-772B; also PC-000-518, PC-000-609, PC-000-615, PC-000-708, PC-000-769 through PC-000-771, PC_000-773-PC-000-788, especially PC-000-771

[sign on hotel in photograph]
El Cortez Hotel

[word balloon from 15th floor of hotel[
Up here seeing all San Diego from the El Cortez Sky Room

[printed in irregular box in left corner]
Acclaimed by artists and globe trotters to be one of the world's great inspirational, panoramic views . . . by bonvivants for its excellence of luncheons, libations and service.
"Drinking in the Sky"
San Diego, California

 

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