Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

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Image of an African American boy standing in front of a group of people on the front porch of the Santa Monica Hotel on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California. A sign for the hotel that reads "Santa Monica Hotel" can be seen on the south side of the front building facing Railroad Avenue (present day Colorado Boulevard.).
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Image of the Edgewater Club in the foreground, with the Grand Hotel behind it, and the Hippodrome, Deauville Club, and Santa Monica Pier visible in the distance, on the beach in Santa Monica, California. A sign that reads "Grand Hotel" is visible on the south side of the Grand Hotel.
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Image of a portion the Miramar Hotel on Ocean Avenue lined with palm trees, at the corner with California Avenue, with the six-story brick Palisades Wing in the background in Santa Monica, California. A sign posted on Ocean Avenue reads "Hotel Miramar and Apartments dining room open to public" and a curb in front reads "Ocean Ave. 1100 Blk."
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Image of the alluvial bluffs of Palisades Park with the Arcadia Hotel in the distance at center and the North Beach Bath House at left in Santa Monica, California. A sign painted over the north entrance to the North Beach Bath House salt water plunge reads "Plunge" and the east facing back wall reads "North Beach Bath House." Train tracks are visible below the cliffs, behind the bathhouse and the North Beach Bath House Pier is seen at far left.
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Image of crowds of spectators watching race cars at the finish line of the Santa Monica Road Race in Santa Monica, California, on May 4, 1912. With streetcar tracks, trash, people climbing poles, a sign that reads "Start and Finish" and crowded grandstands visible.
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View of railroad tracks running next to the bluffs in Santa Monica, California, with a few telephone poles visible. The Southern Pacific Railroad ran steam engines along these tracks between Los Angeles and the Long Wharf.
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