View of the roof of the Sorrent Beach Club and the Pacific Coast Highway, beach, and Palisades Park, Santa Monica

Title: View of the roof of the Sorrent Beach Club and the Pacific Coast Highway, beach, and Palisades Park, Santa Monica
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created: [1950s]
Date: 1950/1959
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: This image is a view of the cliffs at Palisades Park, Santa Monica and the highway and beach below. In the background, the Santa Monica Pier can be seen.
P. H. Philbin, of Chicago, a former owner of the Sorrento Beach Club building, had planned a 12-story apartment building on the site in 1953. The project included utilizing the massive concrete Sorrento Beach Club structure which had been abandoned in an unfinished state. The project was controversial, as some property owners felt that it would mar the beauty of the Santa Monica Palisades Park. Philbin may have had this image taken to document the Palisades area near the Sorrento Beach Club.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: PH Philbin, 705 Ocean Street, Panor...(illegible).

Genre: acetate film
black-and-white photographs
exterior views
Names: Sorrento Beach Club (Santa Monica, Calif.)
California Highway 1 (Calif.)
Location: California--Santa Monica
Longitude: 34.021398
Latitude: -118.507296
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Cliffs--California--Santa Monica
Palisades Park (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Parks--California--Santa Monica

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_2718
2718
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d4bt3
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.