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    Santa Catalina Island in Vintage Postcards
    Santa Catalina Island in Vintage Postcards
    Santa Catalina Island in Vintage Postcards
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    Santa Catalina Island in Vintage Postcards

    By Marlin L. Heckman

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    Throughout the years, the 76-square-mile island of Santa Catalina has hosted Native-American tribes, European sailors, American tourists, and even the Chicago Cubs. The island has survived both ecologically and culturally, resisting the temptation of becoming a Coney Island of Los Angeles. Through the work of its residents along with chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr., Santa Catalina Island is as beautiful today as it was when it was discovered in 1542.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateFeb 15, 2001
    ISBN9781439628010
    Santa Catalina Island in Vintage Postcards
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    Marlin L. Heckman

    Collected and interpreted by Marlin L. Heckman, the images in this informative volume provide readers with a delightful trip down memory lane, bringing an important period of the area�s history to life for visitors and members of the younger generation.

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      Santa Catalina Island in Vintage Postcards - Marlin L. Heckman

      1907.)

      INTRODUCTION

      Santa Catalina Island is a 76-square-mile island (some 50,000 acres), 20 miles off the Southern California coast. It is 22 miles in length, 8-miles wide, and is the third largest of the Channel Islands. Two thousand years ago the Gabrelino Native Americans called it the mountain range in the sea. On a clear day Catalina is visible from high points of land in Los Angeles County.

      Discovered by European sailors in 1542, it was named San Salvadore. Sixty years later, Viscaino rediscovered it and named it Santa Catalina. At the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, Catalina Island became American territory. In 1846 Governor Pio Pico granted the island to an American, Thomas Robbins. After changing hands several times Catalina was purchased by Phinneas Banning’s three sons, who formed the Catalina Island Company in 1894 and turned the island into a resort. . . . (Leonard and Dale Pitt, Los Angeles A to Z. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, p. 453.)

      By the year 1871, summer excursions to Santa Catalina by way of the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad to Wilmington and boat to the island first became popular with a limited number of people in Los Angeles.... A carrier pigeon service was inaugurated this year (1871), the birds taking about an hour to cross to or from the mainland. Racing of these birds was a popular sport, and one bird in that year is recorded as making the trip in fifty minutes. (John S. McGroarty, History of Los Angeles County. Chicago and New York, American Historical Society, 1923.)

      After a devastating fire in 1915—which destroyed much of the city of Avalon—the Banning brothers had financial difficulties. Vacationing on Catalina in 1919, chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. purchased a majority interest in the island and the Wilmington transportation company and began developments aimed at increasing tourist travel to Catalina. Wrigley knew immediately what he did not want for the island. More than one biographer has quoted Wrigley’s firmly stated doctrine—‘There is to be nothing of the Coney Island flavor about Santa Catalina. It would not be thinkable to mar the beauty of such a spot with roller coasters and the like.’ (William Sanford White with Steven Kern Tice, Santa Catalina Island, Its Magic, People and History. Glendora, CA: White Limited Editions, 1997, p. 52.)

      Around 1917, a dance pavilion had been built on Sugar Loaf Point. One thing William Wrigley Jr. did to improve tourist traffic involved the construction of additional hotel rooms and a casino, built in 1929 on the site of the former dance pavilion. It was not a gambling casino but a 140-foot-tall circular building that included a dance floor on the upper level and a theater on the first floor. At the time of its construction, it was the tallest building in Los Angeles County. The theater seats 2,500 people. The casino was built on the site of the original dance pavilion. "The theater lobby alone is richly paneled with 4,500 square feet of black walnut, a hard wood that today

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