April 12, 2024
RARE SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CALIFORNIA COLOR BOOKLET ~ c. - 1910
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Rare early original vintage 28 page color promotional booklet containing 24 color reproductions of attractions and life on the island.Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across at its greatest width. The island is located about 22 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is 2,097 feet Mt. Orizaba. Santa Catalina is part of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and lies within Los Angeles County.By the end of the 19th century, the island was almost uninhabited except for a few cattle herders. The first owner to try to develop Avalon into a resort destination was George Shatto, a real estate speculator from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Shatto purchased the island for $200,000 from the Lick estate at the height of the real estate boom in Southern California in 1887. Shatto created the settlement that would become Avalon, and can be credited with building the town's first hotel, the original Hotel Metropole, and pier.[8] Despite Shatto's efforts, he defaulted on his loan after only a few years and the island went back to the Lick estate.The sons of Phineas Banning bought the island in 1891 from the estate of James Lick. The
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