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Originally Posted by HossC
I think that the photographer was on the balcony arrowed below. I haven't yet mananged to find a name for this hotel (apartment building?), seen here in 1979. As Bristolian said, it's where the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel now stands.
Detail of picture at www.californiacoastline.org |
The address of the Loews is 1700 Ocean Avenue and I came up with these images of the wonderfully googie/mid-century Doric Surfrider Inn
http://digital.smpl.org/cdm/ref/coll...rchive/id/1741
You can see the small section with the extra floor at the tip of Hoss's red arrow at the far right side of this eBay postcard
eBay
I found an image of a matchbook cover online but the website wanted $50 for me to post it.