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<p>[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 16956, member: 57"]DragonflyWink, I just looked up "Hotel Virginia" at Long Beach, CA. Link is below. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a photo dated "1908 - 1915?"</p><p><br /></p><p>"The Hotel Virginia opened in 1908. It had marble columns, a curved staircase, decorative oriental rugs, and mahogany European furniture. The hotel stood until 1933, the year of the Long Beach earthquake. The hotel foundation can still be seen at Ocean and Chestnut, in Victory Park, which is located along Ocean Blvd (Alamitos to Magnolia) in Long Beach, California."</p><p><br /></p><p>The source is "The Library of Congress, American Memory."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/33.767327,-118.196574/id/15267/info/details/zoom/14/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/33.767327,-118.196574/id/15267/info/details/zoom/14/" rel="nofollow">http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/33.767327,-118.196574/id/15267/info/details/zoom/14/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 16956, member: 57"]DragonflyWink, I just looked up "Hotel Virginia" at Long Beach, CA. Link is below. There is a photo dated "1908 - 1915?" "The Hotel Virginia opened in 1908. It had marble columns, a curved staircase, decorative oriental rugs, and mahogany European furniture. The hotel stood until 1933, the year of the Long Beach earthquake. The hotel foundation can still be seen at Ocean and Chestnut, in Victory Park, which is located along Ocean Blvd (Alamitos to Magnolia) in Long Beach, California." The source is "The Library of Congress, American Memory." [url]http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/33.767327,-118.196574/id/15267/info/details/zoom/14/[/url][/QUOTE]
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