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Title: World-Famous Cliff House Overlooking Seal Rocks
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1945
Contributing Institution: Pepperdine University, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Collectables
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Description: The Cliff House, first built in 1858, stands on a cliff in western San Francisco overlooking the famous Seal Rocks. This postcard features the third Cliff House, which opened in 1909, after it was extensively remodeled in 1938. Printed on reverse: The famed California Landmark had its beginning in the year 1858. It is built upon a cliff at the most westerly point in San Francisco, overlooking the Sky Tram, Golden Gate Straits, Seal Rocks and the Pacific Ocean. The present building was completed in 1950. It is the fifth Cliff House to be built upon this location.
Type: Image
Identifier: http://cdm15730.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15730coll18/id/2586
Subject: Malibu Historical Collection
Source: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera 0129: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8w95gpb
Relation: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Collectables

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