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Description
Photograph of a group of people entering the Arrowhead Springs Hotel, near San Bernardino, ca.1925. Three women and a man can be seen on a concrete sidewalk at center. An early-model automobile can be seen at right on a eucalyptus tree-lined road. At left, the four-story hotel, can be seen. Its walls are covered with ivy and dark awnings project out over the windows. Mountains are visible int he background. Additional information: This famous hotel, frequented by movie stars and other celebs, burned down in a forest fire in 1938, and rebuilt in 1939, with a completely different exterior, designed by architects-to-the-stars, Paul R. Williams, Gordon Kaufman, and Edward Huntsman-Trout, with interior design by Dorothy Draper. Silent film star Charlie Chaplin posed for pictures at this earlier hotel with the then owners Seth Marshall and his wife, and a much-publicized one with a group of children on the front lawn of the hotel, featured in the Los Angeles Times, on June 12, 1915. Silent movie actresses Mary Pickford and Mabel Normand were also visitors to Arrowhead Springs Hotel during this time.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w 13 x 17 cm. transparencies photographs
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