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Hotel Arcadia $250 Bond (100806)

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Hotel Arcadia $250 Bond  (100806)
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This item SOLD at 2019 May 22 @ 17:05UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Gorgeous bond issued for this iconic Santa Monica beach hotel. No. 70, issued and not cancelled in 1886. Signed by Joseph W. Scott. Black border and print. Fancy logo and wonderful large vignette of the hotel. Printed by HS Crocker & Co., SF. One coupon attached. 16.5 x 15.75" Folds, excellent condition. The Hotel Arcadia was a large beachfront 200 room resort hotel, built well to the northwest of the center of Los Angeles in the 1880s. J.W. Scott was the hotel's first owner and manager. The hotel held an opening night ball on March 31st, 1887. Billed itself as "Unquestionably the most elegant resort on the Coast." Site of an attempted murder in 1903 by Griffith J. Griffith of his wife, whom he shot in the face before she jumped out of the second floor window and survived both the fall and gunshot. Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1886
City/County: Santa Monica
State: California