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Pickwick Stage Terminal and Hotel, First and Broadway, San Diego, California, 1927

 

1927

 

 

The Pickwick Hotel was constructed in 1926 as the Pickwick Stage Terminal and Hotel, opening in May 1927. It was part of a "stage line" that was nationwide and that built hotels in connection with their passenger service. In 1927 two more towers were added (see San Diego History Center #6977, the hotel under construction), opening in 1928. Started in 1915, at one time the Pickwick Stage Lines was one of the three largest passenger carriers in the US. In 1929 the passenger service merged with Greyhound, but the hotel name of Pickwick stayed the same. The hotel was renovated and renamed the Sofia Hotel in 2006.

Pickwick Hotel; Sofia Hotel; Pickwick Stage System; Pickwick Stage Terminal; San Diego

132 West Broadway

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

M. Kashower Co., Los Angeles, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

San Diego History Center photograph #8325 (1926, no radio towers); Journal of San Diego History July 1957, v3 #3, James Reading, "The San Diego and Escondido Stage"; PC-000-536; San Diego Historical Society "Times," XXXXVI #2 Spring 2007

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82A:--Pickwick Stage Terminal and Hotel, First and Broadway, San Diego, Calif.

 

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