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To: SatinDoll

Used to go to the Islington hotel for a week, then The Grand Hotel for another.
Kinda similar hotels from the same era,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington_Hotel


16 posted on 06/12/2013 11:57:57 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

WOW! A hotel!

My parents liked to rough it. We went to 1930s-era vacation bungalows on a hillside overlooking Avalon on Catalina Island off the coast of California (1957 & 1958). No room service, no carpets, but it did have a rustic kitchen with a depression era refrigerator and a really scary shower in the bathroom.

The beach was rocky rather than sandy, but the glass-bottom boats and the the flying fish in the Channel were kinda cool.

To travel to Catalina Island we took a steamer that had wooden benches on the outside decks. I think the island had an airport but I could be wrong on that; flying boats is what I remember.


23 posted on 06/12/2013 1:46:31 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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