The round, Art Deco structure rises the equivalent of 12 stories, and is surrounded by the sea on three sides. During the day its white facade gleams in the sunshine, and at night it lights the harbor with a romantic glow. Commissioned and built by William Wrigley, Jr, the Catalina Casino opened on May 29, , just in time for the summer season.
Moreover, the massive organ was outfitted with a microphone so that the music from the instrument could be heard elsewhere within as well as outside the casino. A layer of dust cloth over which was mesh provided the base for the application of the murals on what constituted an acoustic plaster overlay on the domed ceiling. With regard to ventilation, there was an entire volume fresh air pumped into the building every five minutes and , cubic feet brought in every minute through seven massive fans of 14 feet diameter that forced air to the roof and drew it out.
Architects Sumner Spaulding and Walter Webber were best known at the time for their designs of the full-time residence and beach house of legendary film comedian Harold Lloyd. Lesser known among their works is the headquarters of the International Institute, a Boyle Heights institution of over a century of existence which assisted immigrant women adapt to life in the United States. Spaulding also contributed an essay about the newly completed casino to the November Los Angeles-based magazine California Arts and Architecture , whose managing editor, Mabel Urmy Seares was profiled in a post on this blog very recently.
Images of the building were also profiled in the prestigious Architectural Digest , also in The Homestead has copies of both issues in its collection and samples of those articles are included here. While the Great Depression broke out five months after the completion of the ornate and grandiose Catalina Casino and had an effect on patronage of the building and the island, the structure has survived. Years ago, Homestead paid staff took a day trip to Catalina and, among our experiences was a special guided tour of the casino.
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The Avalon certainly buzzed with excitement on the night Benson and Hernandez attended. But melancholy set in once the lights went up. She delivered the Change. Inside, year-old friends Alexa Moronez and Jocelyn Reyes lingered in the lobby, ringed with black-walnut panels and gold-leaf accents.
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