Description: Santa Cruz, CALIFORNIA - Casino & Natatorium - PRE-PRINTED NOTE: Fred W. Swanton first built a casino, Neptune's Casino, and a beach tent city in 1904. The Casino offered 500 beach dressing rooms, a theater, a café, seaside grill, ballroom and roof gardens. The Casino was designed by architect Edward L. Van Cleeck The Casino was a bar with entertainment and gambling was never legal there. But it was widely known visitors could find boats at the pleasure pier, now called the Santa Cruz Wharf, to take them out in ships into the harbor to gamble in the 1910 and 1920s. Swanton built an amusement park near the pier, some calling it the Coney Island of the West. In 1911 Charles I. D. Looff family built a Merry-go-round carousel and in 1924 the Giant Dipper roller coaster.. Built in 1907 on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Plunge Natatorium was an indoor swimming pool that used heated Monterey Bay Pacific Ocean salt water. The main swimming pool was 144 feet by 64 feet and had a 40-foot slide. The two pools held 408,000 gallons. The pool was refilled and heated to 83 degrees each night. An added attraction was the Water Carnival. The Water Carnival had entertainment like: Ruth Kahl, known as the human submarine, a world record holder for deep underwater swimming down to 303 feet; Dido Scettrini, Shirley Wightman and Harry Murray all human submarines, flying trapeze artists; fire divers; Stratosphere Plungers; water ballets; Duke Kahanamoku an Olympic swimmer and surfer; fire dives; Don "Bosco" Patterson log zip line rider, swimming team races and other exhibitions. Later called The Plunge or the Santa Cruz Swimming Pavilion. Natatorium opened in 1907 and closed in 1963. On the old site a miniature golf course was built. After the remodel, some structural features of the old pool were still visible on the outer edges of the mini-golf course. After the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake this mini-golf course was replaced with a new one, called in Neptune's Kingdom. This pre-printed Divided Back Era (1907-15) Advertising postcard is in good condition. Pacific Novelty Co. San Francisco, Cal.
Price: 12 USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Size: Standard (5.5x3.5 in)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Continent: North America
Material: Paper
Theme: Advertising, Amusement Parks, Architecture, Cities & Towns, Seascape
Region: California
Country: USA
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Features: Divided Back
Subject: Casino & Natatorium
Postage Condition: Unposted
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
City: Santa Cruz
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1919
Unit of Sale: Single Unit
Era: Pre-War (Pre-1914)
Brand/Publisher: Pacific Novelty Co.
