PC-000-778

El Cortez Hotel in San Diego before addition of sign in 1937

 

 

 

Devolite Peerless photo paper

This is a Real Photo Post Card, most likely self-published by either the person who took the photograph or a friend or family member. The Real Photo process allowed amateur or professional photographers to take "snap shots" and develop them at home or take them to photo finishers to print out onto postcard backs ready for mailing. 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. In 1937 the hotel changed hands, and a large illuminated sign was placed at the top of the hotel reading, "El Cortez Hotel." The lack of this sign means that the photograph must have been taken between 1927 and 1937. On the back are only a dividing line between the message and address portions, the words "Photo Post Card" and "Address," and "Devolite Peerless" in the stamp box.

El Cortez Hotel; San Diego; RPPC; Real Photo Post Cards

702 Ash Street

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

English

 

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-518, PC-000-609, PC-000-615, PC-000-708, PC-000-769 through PC-000-777, PC-000-779 through PC-000-788

[bottom of photograph in white ink]
El Cortez Hotel

 

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TIFF

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