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Item:154981520356Santa Catalina Island, CALIFORNIA - Sugar Loaf Station - Descanso Canyon - 1909. Santa Catalina Island, CALIFORNIA - Sugar Loaf Station - Descanso Canyon - 1909: Santa Catalina Island is a rocky island off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island name is often shortened to Catalina Island or just Catalina. The island is 22 mi (35 km) long and 8 mi (13 km) across at its greatest width. The island is located about 29 mi (47 km) south-southwest of Long Beach, California. The highest point on the island is Mount Orizaba (2,097 ft or 639 m). Geologically, Santa Catalina is part of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and lies within Los Angeles County. Catalina Island is the easternmost of the Channel Islands. Politically, Catalina Island is part of Los Angeles County in District 4. Most of the land on the island is unincorporated (governed by the county) with 90% of the population living in the city of Avalon. Sugar Loaf, Santa Catalina Island (Sugarloaf), is a survey station established by William E. Greenwell in 1856. Once the site of a large pinnacle rock historically accessed by a set of wooden stairs, Sugar Loaf Point marks the northern entrance to Avalon Harbor. The place name appears of the 1858 Report of the Superintendent of the US Coast Survey for the Year 1858 map from Pt. Sal to San Diego; then on the 1861 Report of the Superintendent of the US Coast Survey for the Year 1861, Map #20. A wooden stairway to the top of Little Sugar Loaf was in place as early as the summer of 1896 and still there in 1910. In 1917-1918 the inland portion of Sugar Loaf point was dynamited and rocks removed by the Santa Catalina Island Company, under the direction of William Wrigley, Jr. and new company manager, David M. Renton, to make way for the construction of the first Sugar Loaf Casino (1918-1928). Wrigley soon realized the building was too small to accommodate the growing visitation to the island, thus the first casino, Sugar Loaf Casino, Santa Catalina Island was demolished to make room for a grand Sugar Loaf Casino, Santa Catalina Island. The octagonal steel frame of the first dance pavilion was reassembled at Catalina Bird Park to make "the world's largest bird cage. As the walls of the new casino dwarfed the venerable Sugar Loaf rock, in March of 1929 the rock was blasted away to improve the view of the magnificent new casino building. This Undivided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1909, is in good condition. M. Rieder, Publisher, Los Angeles. No. 3130.
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Condition:This Undivided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1909, is in good condition.