San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado
by John Telfer
Title
San Diego's Hotel Del Coronado
Artist
John Telfer
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Photograph - Photograph
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While on a visit to San Diego I took the ferry from the San Diego coast and traveled across to Coronado, California. After laying on the beach for a little bit I decided to get up and see some of the sites in Coronado. I went up to the Hotel Del Coronado and sat down on the outside deck looking over the Pacific Ocean. The view was amazing and so was the hotel's view. I went inside to get a better view and found out that it was built in 1888 and was used for many famous Hollywood movies and has become the place to hangout for Hollywood celebrities and even Presidents of the United States. For more information on this amazing Hotel please feel free to read below;
Hotel del Coronado (also known as The Del and Hotel Del) is a historic beachfront hotel in the city of Coronado, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California. It is one of the few surviving examples of an American architectural genre: the wooden Victorian beach resort. It is the second largest wooden structure in the United States (after the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon) and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977and a California Historical Landmark in 1970.
When it opened in 1888, it was the largest resort hotel in the world. It has hosted presidents, royalty, and celebrities through the years.[6] The hotel has been featured in numerous movies and books.
Notable guests have included Thomas Edison, L. Frank Baum, Charlie Chaplin, King Kalakaua of Hawaii,[32] Vincent Price, Babe Ruth, James Stewart, Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. More recently, guests have included Kevin Costner, Whoopi Goldberg, Gene Hackman, George Harrison, Brad Pitt, Madonna, Barbra Streisand and Oprah Winfrey.[33]
The following presidents have stayed at the hotel: Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.[19]
Another famous resident of the hotel is the purported ghost of Kate Morgan. On November 24, 1892, she checked into room 304 (then 3318, now 3327). She told staff she was awaiting the arrival of her brother who was a doctor. She said he was going to treat her stomach cancer, but he never arrived. She was found dead on the steps leading to the beach three days later. The case was declared a suicide; she had shot herself.[34] Another tragedy took place on the beach at the hotel in 1904 when actress Isadore Rush drowned.
The hotel was first featured in a film when it was used as a backdrop for The Flying Fleet (1927). Since then, it has been featured in at least 12 other films, including: Some Like It Hot (1959), starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis, where it was called the "Seminole Ritz" (and supposed to be located in southern Florida); Wicked, Wicked (1973), which was completely filmed on location there; The Stunt Man (1980), starring Peter O'Toole; and My Blue Heaven (1990), starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis.
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Renu S
Spectacular capture. The architecture with the commentary on the history of this place and the genre is interesting!
Jenny Revitz Soper
CONGRATULATIONS! This enchanting piece has been FEATURED on the homepage of the FAA Artist Group No Place Like Home, 2/05/2019! Way to go! Please post it in the Group's Features discussion thread for posterity and/or any other thread that fits!
John Telfer replied:
Thank you Jenny for featuring my photo in the group, No Place Like Home, I appreciate the feature
JOHN TELFER
Thank you Mariola for featuring my photo in the group, 500 Views, I appreciate the feature