PC-000-770

Tthe El Cortez Hotel Sky Room, 1940

 

1940

 

Curt Teich C. T. Art-Colortone

The Sky Room opened in 1940 at the top of the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego. At 310 feet, the hotel on San Diego's Cortez Hill (then Ash Street Hill) was the tallest building from its opening in 1927 until 1963. Glass windows all around the top of this building offered a 360-degree view of San Diego for patrons of this dining room and bar, including at that time San Diego Bay, Point Loma, Mt. Helix, Balboa Park, and Old Town, according to the cartoon occupying the right bottom of this advertisement. In the cartoon, note that the North Island and South Island of Coronado (sometimes called "Coronado" by itself) were nearly separated by the Spanish Bight in 1940. The Silver Strand or narrow beach connecting Coronado to the mainland is labelled. The message portion of this card says the Hotel was "Benton operated." This card was made by Curt Teich, by the "C.T. Art-Colortone" process, number OB-H943, containing a code by which the card was dated (B=1940s, 0=year).

Sky Room; El Cortez Hotel; San Diego; Advertisements; Restaurants; Bars

702 Ash Street

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

El Cortez Hotel, San Diego, Caliornia, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-518, PC-000-609, PC-000-615, PC-000-708, PC-000-769, PC_000-771 through PC-000-788

[on the left of the card below the top drawing]
I'm Seeing San Diego * * Where California Began * * from the El Cortez Sky Room "Drinking in the Sky"

[in a cartoon showing the view from the top of the El Cortez]
Point Loma
San Diego Bay
North Island
Silver Strand
Old Town
El Cortez
Balboa Park
Mt. Helix
California [border]
Tia Juana [Tijuana]
Mexico

 

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