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Title: El Cortez Hotel, glass elevator
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Exterior view of El Cortez Hotel located at the northeast corner of 7th and Ash, in San Diego, Calif. Front view of the building features the added (1956) exterior glass elevator, the 2nd in the world, with its unique hydraulic ram. View also shows the ornate arched entrance located between the Cafe Cortez and the Pacific Room. Date built: 1927. Architects: Albert R. Walker and Percy Eisen.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00040116
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
San Diego-Hotels-Cortez Hotel
CARL0000043873
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/100351
Subject: El Cortez Hotel (San Diego, Calif.)
Hotels--California--San Diego
Decoration and ornament, Architectural--California--San Diego
Hydraulic rams
San Diego (Calif.)
Walker & Eisen

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