Hermosa Beach Centennial Mural

John Hiss settled in Hermosa Beach in the early 1900s. Bringing his family and building skills to the yet to be incorporated city. Hiss built the first school Ocean View School on Prospect. High on the hill the school building still exists near Fort Lots of Fun just around the corner from Hermosa View School. 

Explore the rich history of the early families who settled in Hermosa Beach. From the Hiss family, who built the first school, to the Mattesons, who established the first bank, each family contributed significantly to the community's development. Learn about their stories and how they shaped the city we know today.

The Matteson family on a fine summer day standing on the original Hermosa Beach Pier.Ralph Matteson was a commercial builder who built the first bank at the corner of Pier Avenue and Hermosa Avenue and built the Metropolitan Theater. Many of his buildings still stand today not only in Hermosa but, throughout the city of Los Angeles.

The Veter Windmill has been standing in Hermosa Beach since 1907. First located on Valley Drive near Pier Avenue it provided water for the extensive flowers fields of Hermosa that used to stretch from Pier Avenue to 21st street. The fields used to grow aster and carnations that sold throughout the city of Los Angeles transported by the freight line that used to run along today's green belt. Vetter Windmill was restored and moved to Greenwood Park on the corner of Aviation and Pacific Coast Highway.

The Kerwin family came to Hermosa Beach opening their family bakery on Pier Avenue. Mary Kerwin married John Hiss son of th first mayor of Hemrosa Beach. The couple then raised eleven children and the entire family lived and worked in the bakery. Many of the Kerwins became the first lifeguards of the city and became early member so the Hermosa Beach Surfing Club. The original building that was the Kerwin Bakery is currently Palmia Restaurant.

 The official seal of the City of Hermosa Beach was designed by graphic designer John T Hales, and adopted by the city in September 1965. Hales painstakingly pieced together the seal together with his son Donald and wife, Lorraine. The seal ingredients included 3,000 pieces of Italian tile with beach pebbles and shells. Sharing his appreciation was Quentin "Boots" Thelen then Mayor of Hermosa Beach. Hales was an avid historian keeping records for many years of Hermosa's civic, city and day to day highlights in binders that are stored in the archives at the Hermosa Museum located at 710 Pier Avenue. 

The Insomniac Cafe and Bookstore was located on Pier Avenue operated for two years before being closed by the city of Hermosa Beach. The building was torn down and left vacant for many years. It is currently the site of Loreto Plaza. The image that appears on the mural was taken from this photograph taken in the alley behind the Insomnaic . 

This iconic image of legendary surf champion Dewey Weber photographed by surf legend Leroy Grannis at 22nd Street. Weber and Grannis epitomized the surfing legends of their time both raised in Hermosa Beach.  Dewey was also the model for the original cartoon character of Buster Brown for Buster Brown shoes-not bad notoriety for a barefoot guy. Dewey became a yo-yo champion as teen. Dewey then developed a the "hot dog style" of surfing after newly designed foam boards afforded him the ability to make quick and tight maneuvers. Generations of surfers have loved this image captured at 22nd street in Hermosa.Then began shaping and selling his surfboards out of his shop on Pacific Coast Highway. Created a 

For the last fifty years Mike Lacey the owner of the Comedy and Magic Club has brought the best comedians of the day to Hermosa Beach. Jay Leno has appeared at the club on Sundays for over thirty years. Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfield, Kevin Neelan to name a few have performed at the club stage over the years as well. Lacey, also has one of the most extensive collections of theatrical posters and costumes.

For the last fifty years Mike Lacey the owner of the Comedy and Magic Club has brought the best comedians of the day to Hermosa Beach. Jay Leno has appeared at the club on Sundays for over thirty years. Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfield, Kevin Neelan to name a few have performed at the club stage over the years as well. Lacey, also has one of the most extensive collections of theatrical posters and costumes.

LeRoy "Granny" Grannis (August 12, 1917 – February 3, 2011) was a veteran photographer. His portfolio of photography of surfing and related sea images from the 1960s enjoys a reputation that led The New York Times to dub him "the godfather of surf photography." He was born in Hermosa Beach, California. Living a beachfront childhood, by the age of five Grannis was taken swimming and bodysurfing by his father. Soon Grannis made himself a bellyboard from a piece of wood and rode it during vacations in his mother's home state of Florida. In 1931, at age 14, his father gave him a 6' x 2' pine board from which he hacked a kneeboard using a drawknife[1]. At Hermosa Pier, stand up surfing was popular, so he began borrowing boards until he could get his own. Later, he struggled to balance surf time with family and work as a member of the Palos Verdes Surf Club, second only in America to the Corona Del Mar Surf Board Club, which was established in the late 1920s. Unable to afford an education at UCLA during the Depression, Grannis dropped out and found work as a carpenter, junkyard de-tinner and spent some years at Standard Oil. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps (now the Air Force) in 1943, serving as a pilot flying supply lines to troops in combat and remaining on active reserve until retiring as a major in 1977. Several fellow surf club members were employed with Pacific Bell, and Grannis joined them in 1946.

Peace and new opportunities

He had already begun to venture into photography, and several of his pictures were featured in photo pioneer and close friend John Heath "Doc" Ball's[2] 1946 book California Surfriders. He surfed the occasional contest during the 1950s, gradually settling into the role of assisting Hoppy Swarts at the controls during the early years of the United States Surfing Association. The telephone company job had given him an ulcer by 1959 and his doctor advised him to take up a hobby, and Ball suggested more serious photography.

His work soon appeared in prominent surf culture magazines of the time including Surfer, Reef and Surfing Illustrated. He quickly became one of the sport's most important documentarians. Other photographers were shooting from the water, but they were forced to return to land to reload. Grannis developed a rubber-lined box that enabled him to change film in the lineup. He spent the decade in California and Hawaii, capturing the best surfers in the world riding the best surf. He was a photo editor of Surfing Illustrated and of International Surfing, which he co-founded.[3] He was named Grand Master of the 2007 Hermosa Beach Art Walk "Salute to 100 Summers." [3]

Some awards and accomplishments

He was elected to the International Surfing Hall of Fame as the number one lensman in 1966 and in 2002 was awarded SIMA's Lifetime Achievement Award. Grannis was the subject of The Surfer's Journal's first ode to master photographers in 1998 with a 1998 hardback compilation of Grannis' 1960s photos entitled Photo:Grannis, and his work was later featured in Stacy Peralta's 2004 award-winning documentary of the sport, Riding Giants. In 2005, M+B Gallery in Los Angeles gave Grannis his first art gallery exhibition and since then, his photographs have been exhibited at galleries, art fairs and museums both at home and abroad, including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London and Antwerp. In 2006, Taschen published LeRoy Grannis: Birth of a Culture as a limited-edition, signed collector's edition monograph. Due to the extreme popularity of the book, TASCHEN has since released two additional popular editions of the book.

As said by Jason Borte, "Leroy Grannis wasn't the first to depict the California lifestyle with his photos. It wasn't his idea to begin shooting in the first place. His contributions to surfing photography occurred over a brief 12-year period, and he hasn't much bothered with it since 1971. Nevertheless, most of the great images from the '60s golden age of surfing, regardless of the magazine, bear the inscription "Photo: Grannis".[4] In 1971, fed up with increased competition for the perfect angle, Grannis quit shooting surfing and soon found himself involved in hang gliding. The sport balanced surfing in his life, and he held a brief stint as photographer for Hang Gliding magazine. Several injuries, including a badly fractured leg in 1981, caused him to find a new outlet. This time it was windsurfing. Until the late 1980s, Grannis both engaged in and photographed the sport.

Grannis moved with his wife to Carlsbad, California, after retiring from Pacific Bell in 1977. Grannis married Katie LaVerne Tracy in 1939, when she was 20, and the couple had four children- Kit, Frank, Nancy, and John, six grandchildren- Robert, Cindy, Alan, Elizabeth, Alana, and Kaylee, and three great-grandchildren- Casey, Emily, and Dane, and two great-great grandchildren during their 69-year marriage before Katie died on December 3, 2008, at age 89.

Bing Copeland began surfing in 1949, at age 13, at the Manhattan Beach pier with his friend Greg Noll, who was a bait boy on the end of the pier. Bing and Greg were surfing gremmies that began their friendship hanging on the railing watching the older guys surf the big heavy redwood boards.

One of the older guys, Dale Velzy, was a lifeguard on the pier at the time and loaned them an 8 foot 80 lbs redwood surfboard to try out. From then on, Bing was hooked as was his friend Greg. Both of them hung around Velzy’s first shop for years helping sweep up, gluing up balsa blanks, shaping wood fins and repairing boards. 

Bing attended Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach until he graduated in 1954. That summer Bing, along with Greg, Vardeman and Hap Jacobs, became lifeguards, which allowed them to earn enough money for a trip to Hawaii. In September of 1955, at 19, Bing flew to Hawaii. He started out in a Waikiki rental and then moved to a Makaha Quonset hut with his friends, Sonny Vardeman, Rick Stoner, Steve Vorhees, Mike Bright, and George Kapoo, where they gradually learned to ride the big surf with the mentoring of George Downing, Buzzy Trent and Peter Cole. With their funds running low, Bing and Rick Stoner both went into the Coast Guards and were luckily assigned to a ship in Hawaii for the next 2 years where they spent all their leave-time surfing and pioneering much of the North Shore.

In 1958 Bing along with Rick Stoner decided to sail around the world. They first sailed to Tahiti then continued on to Fiji and eventually New Zealand where they introduced modern surfing and surfboards to the Kiwi’s.

Bing opened his first surf shop in the fall of 1959 with his friend Rick Stoner and became one of the major surfboard manufactures of the sixties and early seventy’s. A year after they opened, Rick decided to sell Bing his portion of the business thus came Bing Surfboards.

The business grew at an exponential rate, and Bing expanded his factory to include a glassing area and a team of first-rate shapers, including Dick Mobley, Mike Eaton, Dan Bendiksen, John Mobley, Wayne Land, and George Lanning and then eventually Dick Brewer also joined the team.

At one point, the factory produced up to 40 surfboards a day. In addition to his board-building team, Bing also had a star team of riders, including David Nuuhiwa, Dru Harrison, Chris Schlickenmeyer, and Rolf Aurness just to name a few.

The late 60s was the beginning of the end for the major manufacturers. It was a time of the “back yard board” and “no label” surfboards. Bing along with his master shapers and new designers, the Campbell Brothers, transitioned to shorter boards with a few models, but despite Bing Surfboard’s continued popularity, sales declined and it became obvious to Bing that the business may not survive. It was also around this time that Bing and his wife, Conlee, decided it might be best to move their young family away from the drug scene that had developed surrounding Hermosa Beach. Bing decided to pursue a career change and moved his family to Idaho.

In 1974, G&S took on the license of Bing Surfboards then Mike Eaton continued the Bing legacy through the 80s and 90s. Until one day in Baja in 2000, where Bing and his family spend their winters, Bing was surfing one of his favorite spots and a car pulled up with a group of young guys. One of the guys approached Bing and claimed to owe him some royalty money for some Bing & Rick surfboards that he had made for Rick Surfboards.

This young man then offered to make Bing’s boards if he was ever interested. Bing casually mentioned this to his good friend Mike Eaton, who had been building the boards up until then, and Mike was happy to pass along the legacy to the new generation of surfboard shapers. This young man was Matt Calvani. To this day, Bing and his family live in the mountains of Idaho and spend their winters surfing in the warm waters of southern Baja, not forgetting to stop in on Matt and his surfboard manufacturing team located in Encinitas, CA.

Herbert "Bing" Copeland opened Bing Surfboards on the Hermosa Beach waterfront in 1960. His name was to become one of the best-known brands throughout the '60s and into the '70s. Speaking of Bing's name, have you ever wondered how he got the name "Bing"? Well, I have, so I asked him. Here's what he had to say: "Actually, I was born Herbert Bingham Copeland III. When I was two years old, my babysitter didn't like calling me "Herbie" so she shortened my middle name and just started calling me Bing. It's been that way ever since."

Bing was born in Torrance, California in 1936 and grew up just a few blocks from the Manhattan Beach pier. When he was 12, Dale Velzy--working as a lifeguard at the time--asked Bing if he wanted to try one of his old boards. As Bing recalls, "the board was about eight feet long and weighed about eighty pounds...we pearled for the first ten or so waves but then finally I remember standing up and riding straight off all the way to the beach." I knew at that moment that this was the sport for me."

Dale Velzy mentored many of the best-known shapers of the '60s and early '70s, and Bing Copeland was one of them. In the early '50s, he helped Velzy by gluing up balsa blanks, shaping wood fins, sanding boards, but "mostly sweeping up balsa shavings." He also worked as a lifeguard between 1954 and 1955, the savings from which allowed him to make his first trip to Hawaii in September 1955. Money ran out in a few months, so Bing and good friend Rick Stoner joined the Coast Guard. Fortunate enough to be stationed near Honolulu, they surfed Ala Moana every afternoon and the North Shore during their annual 30-day leave.

Discharged in late '57, Bing went back to surfing and lifeguarding in California. But within months, he was off again, this time crewing on a 42-foot sailboat with Rick Stoner to Hawaii, Tahiti, Moorea and beyond. They ended up in New Zealand in November of 1958, where they surfed for two months. Before leaving, they built eight or ten boards for members of a local surf club, which led them to open Bing and Rick Surfboards on the Hermosa Beach strand in October of 1959. A year later, Bing bought out Rick and Bing Surfboards was born. By 1965, production had reached 40 boards a day.

Bing Copeland influenced surfing in many ways and worked with some of best-known surfers of the time. Names like Donald Takayama and David Nuuhiwa were included on the list of famous Bing team riders; Takayama is also a very talented shaper and introduced the Bing Donald Takayama Model. He also helped develop two extremely popular Bing models bearing the Nuuhiwa name--the "Noserider" and the "Lightweight"--of which an estimated 10,000 units were sold between 1965 and 1967. In 1967, surfboard designer Dick Brewer shaped the Bing Pipeliner, a model that Brewer still shapes today. In 1973, Bing produced a trademarked Bonzer model, a design introduced a year earlier and one of the first to use three fins--now a standard on all performance shortboards.

By 1974, Bing licensed his popular name and moved his family to Idaho, where he lives at least half of each year. He spends winters in Baja, where he still surfs 3 or 4 days a week. Bing Copeland has been extremely gracious about sharing both his insights and his adventures during the greatest days the sport has ever known. Today, talented surfboard shaper Matt Calvani and well-known '60s surfer Lance Carson have teamed up to make Bing surfboards and clothing available once again. They have a website that's worth the visit have a look at www.classicbingsurfboards.com.

Howard Rumsey (November 7, 1917 – July 15, 2015)[1] was an American jazz double-bassist known for his leadership of the Lighthouse All-Stars in the 1950s.

Biography

Born in Brawley, California, United States,[2] Rumsey first began playing the piano, followed by the drums and finally the bass.[2] After jobs with Vido Musso and Johnnie Davis, Rumsey became part of Stan Kenton's first band.[2] Rumsey soon left Kenton after an argument. He played with Charlie Barnet and Barney Bigard before taking a short hiatus from music.[2] Following this absence, Rumsey returned to the Los Angeles jazz scene to form the group the Lighthouse All-Stars.[2] For most of the 1950s this group played each Sunday at the Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach.[2] During its lifetime, the Lighthouse All-Stars were one of the primary modern jazz institutions on the west coast, providing a home for many Los Angeles musicians.[3]

The Lighthouse All-Stars

In early 1949, Rumsey was in search of a playing job and came across the Lighthouse Club on Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach, which he felt would be an ideal place to play music. The Lighthouse was built in 1934 as a restaurant named Verpilates. In 1940, the business changed hands, and under new ownership it was turned into a Polynesian-styled club named the Lighthouse, primarily serving merchant seamen. In 1948, the club was sold to John Levine.[4] After convincing Levine to permit the playing of jazz in the club, Rumsey played his first show on Sunday 29 May 1949, to immediate success.

The first Lighthouse All-Stars was a group made up of Los Angeles musicians who had been a part of the Central Avenue scene in the 1940s, including Teddy Edwards, Sonny Criss, Hampton Hawes, Frank Patchen, Bobby White, and Keith Williams. This band lasted for a time before Rumsey changed personnel to feature a new wave of players. The second edition of the Lighthouse All-Stars featured Jimmy Giuffre, Shorty Rogers, and Shelly Manne. The success of this group soon landed them with a recording contract for Les Koenig's Contemporary Records. Not only were the Lighthouse All-Stars recording for Contemporary, but many of the members of the group were also leading sessions for this same label.

After Rogers, Giuffre and Manne left together in 1953 for a job at The Haig, Rumsey had to recreate his band yet again. This third edition featured Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Rolf Ericson, and Max Roach. This band took part in a historic recording on 13 September 1953, Roach's first show with the group, which would feature both Chet Baker and Miles Davis, along with Russ Freeman and Lorraine Geller.

With the eventual breakup of this edition, the chairs were filled by various other notable musicians throughout the following years. In his book West Coast Jazz, author Ted Gioia claims to have listed over seventy-five musicians who were once members of the group.[5] By the early 1960s interest in jazz in Los Angeles had greatly faded and the group came to its demise.[2] From 1971 to 1985, Rumsey owned and operated Concerts By The Sea in Redondo Beach, California,[2] a "distinctive club that provided an ideal tiered, concert-seating venue (seating 200) which offered the finest jazz in the Los Angeles area".[6]

Rumsey died from complications of pneumonia in Newport Beach, California, at the age of 97.[1]

With Chet Baker

• Witch Doctor (Contemporary C7649, rec. 1953; rel. 1985) -CD issue: OJC/Fantasy 609-

With Miles Davis

• At Last! (Contemporary C7645, rec. 1953; rel. 1985) -CD issue: OJC/Fantasy 480-

With Stan Kenton

• The Kenton Era (Capitol WDX-569, rec. 1940-1954; rel. 1955)

With Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers

• Popo (Xanadu 148, rec. 1951; rel. 1978) -CD issue: Xanadu 1223; later reissued on Definitive/The Jazz Factory FCD 22836 (with two bonus tracks) and re-titled as Complete Lighthouse Sessions-

With Art Pepper

• Early Days, Vol. 1 (Norma/Vantage NLP-5001, rec. 1952; rel. 1991) -CD issue: Norma/Vantage NOCD 5630 (with five bonus tracks) and re-titled as Live At The Lighthouse '52-

With Stan Getz

• The Lighthouse Sessions, Vol. 1 (Norma/Vantage NLP-5003, rec. 1953; rel. 1991) -CD issue: Giant Steps GSCR 022 and re-titled as Stan Getz And The Lighthouse All-Stars Live-

In 1926 a group of South Bay Businessmen sold memberships for construction and operation of an exclusive professional men's club. It was named THE SURF AND SAND BEACH CLUB. A few years after its construction, in 1929, it was sold to the Los Angeles Athletic Association, but was again sold, this time to private interests, when the City Fathers could not agree on giving the Association private beach rights.

At the beginning of World War II the now-named Hermosa Biltmore Hotel was converted into a 120-room hotel. Each room contained a toilet and wash bowl, over half the rooms a private bath, several with connecting baths. Every room completely renovated and new bed, springs, mattress and furniture and numerous new rugs in the first half of 1955

CONSTRUCTION.

This 6-story reinforced concrete building is Class A construction and was built at a cost of $840,000.00; with furnishings of $286,000.00. Its foundation is of concrete piling which goes into blue clay and averages forty-two (42) feet in depth. The Hermosa Biltmore Hotel can never be washed out by the ocean, so strong and deep its foundation.

THE ROOF

Sun bathing is enjoyed on the spacious and unencumbered roof of the Hotel, and there are unlimited possibilities for remodeling this roof for Starlight Dancing and daytime lounging. The restful view takes in a panorama encompassing Catalina Island to the Southwest, the lovely Palos Verdes Hills to the South, Los Angeles and environs due East, Hollywood Hills to the North. Malibu and Ventura Coastline to the Northwest. Completing the panorama, and giving it ever new hues, are the brilliant ever-changing sunsets on the blue Pacific.

THE SECOND FLOOR

The entire second floor has been equipped for recreation. Three large rooms are used for dancing and banquets. The ballroom extends across the entire front of the building and is 198' long, and faces the ocean and beach. It is two stories high and the acoustics are excellent. The floor is hardwood laid in cement slab, and is highly finished for dancing. This area can be used entire or can be divided into two separate rooms by means of soundproof folding doors, making one ballroom or banquet room, an area of approximately 138' X 40' with raised bandstand and walk-in fireplace at the south end, and a 40' set-in bar. This space will accommodate about 1500 guests. The north ballroom space is 50' X 40' and will accommodate approximately 1000 guests, and similarly has a raised bandstand and a 40' bar. The thick-carpeted foyer, well-ventilated men's and ladies' restrooms, and a checkroom immediately adjoin the ballrooms. For cabaret style dancing, chairs and tables for 1000 guests and service for 2500 are available.

THE MEZZANINE

This floor is composed of two large offices for the hotel, what was once a health studio, a large completely equipped kitchen and clubroom presently named the KEY ROOM.

The room which used to have the health studio is equipped with Howard steam cabinets, Gyro-Wave chair, massage tables, slenderizing tables, Finnish style steam rooms, dressing rooms, showers, approximately 20 booths, and weights and cycles for reducing and exercising.

The KEY ROOM has its own scroll-shaped bar, seating 15 persons. The room is completely carpeted except for a small dancing space which can be converted into dining space when needed. The tables and booths will seat 50 diners-and-dancers. This room has been decorated in the past by an outstanding Hollywood Cocktail and Lounge designer and decorator. The overhead indirect lighting fixtures are especially designed to carry out the Key Motif, and are an attractions in themselves. This room faces the spacious beach and blue Pacific.

The KITCHEN adjoining is large, and completely equipped with a deep freeze, 10' square walk-in refrigerator, gas, steam, dishwasher, Rainier 3-tier oven, Hobart mixer, Timkin vegetable peeler, Cass charcoal broiler, french fryer, double unit steam table, 4-urn McKie coffee maker, Hobart meat slicing machine and complete dinner and silver service for 2500 guests.

THE LOBBY

The first floor lobby as been recently remodeled and redecorated. One feels the tranquillity of lush tropical quiet as one enters this coral and jungle-green lounge. The decor, so skillfully planned and executed, actually creates a three-dimensional effect by reason of the lavish tropical colors blended and balanced by true artistic skill. Coral lamp shades and brown and coral upholstered lounges and chairs complete this inviting atmosphere.

Leading off the lobby is a cocktail room and a cocktail bar, Coffee Shop with complete kitchen and a room where a cigar and magazine stand was at one time. Also on the first floor is a large swimming pool with men's and ladies' dressing rooms.

THE COFFEE SHOP KITCHEN is equipped with 2 reach-in refrigerators, 14' steam table, range and grill, french fryer, meat slicer (Hobart), ice cream cabinet and miscellaneous work tables. There is feeding space for employees in the kitchen. Seating capacity in the Coffee Ship: 15 at the counter and 35 at the tables. It is carpeted and decorated in Marine motif and has copper lighting fixtures. The kitchen can be closed off and steam table and grill, the 2-urn coffee-maker and refrigerator can take care of the lighter trade.

The COCKTAIL ROOM is by name the CITY ROOM. It is finished in light natural wood and decorated in natural-wood-framed enlarged sepia photographs of city scenes. The luxurious lounge chairs are upholstered in antique imitation lather. There is seating accommodation for 200 guests. A dance floor and baby grand piano and deep carpeting complete this beautiful, cozy, relaxing fun room.

The COCKTAIL BAR adjoins the CITY ROOM and is decorated in sport plaid with natural wood finish. The bar stools and upholstered chairs here are of antique imitation leather also, and will accommodate 100 guests. It opens directly onto the beach and is a highly popular place for strollers and bathers. Television and juke box are for the pleasure of the guests. The bar has 2 stations and 2 cash registers with 3 work keys on each. There are 3 large beer boxes and unlimited glass service.

The SWIMMING POOL is 60' X 25' and water is chlorinated and heated. Men's and women's dressing rooms are immediately adjoining the plunge which opens onto the Strand and beach. In summer it clears $1,000.00 net and enjoys an even better take during the winter months.

PARKING AREA

Adequate space for guests' cars is hotel-owned and adjacent to the Hotel. In the case of overflow, numerous parking lots are available within a stone's throw of the Hotel entrance.

LOCATION

Please notice that this Hotel is but 12 minutes from the Los Angeles International Airport and is the nearest hotel to it. The Pacific Coast Highway (101) runs but four blocks east of the ocean front, making the HERMOSA BILTMORE HOTEL an ideal resting and stopping point for travelers.

VALUE

The REPLACEMENT VALUE of this structure at present-day costs is $2,250,000.00. The sale price of the Hotel is $800,000.00 with 10% down or some cash or trade; long term on the balance; 3-1/2% or 4% interest. Make offer.

HERMOSA BILTMORE HOTEL,

HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA(The costs given for the Hermosa Beach Biltmore Hotel are from the sales brochure and can not be verified in any manner.