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Monrovia Messenger Souvenir Edition 1897. "Colonel [Samuel] Keefer purchased a tract of land from Mr. Baldwin, and erected on the northwest corner of Lemon and Ivy La Vista Grande Hotel." History of Monrovia by John L. Wiley 1927 p 29. "For a few years the Vista Grande Hotel was known as The Antlers. It is variously referred to as La Vista Grande or Grand View, which is merely the anglicized form of its original Spanish name. In 1895 It bore the name of The Antlers and as such made a request for a permit to serve wines and beer to its guests. There was a fair sized minority that favored this measure, upon the grounds that its guests were of a metropolitan nature who came from many large cities both in this country and abroad, and that these beverages could be served to its regular guests at meals without causing intemperance in the general public. As the result of this petition, the law was changed, permitting the Hotels to serve wines and beer to regular customers at meals; also permitting regularly licensed physicians to prescribe it as a medicine in case of illness, and allowing its sale for chemical or mechanical purposes." History of Monrovia by John L. Wiley 1927 p 84-85.
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