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Rudy Flores · (619) 392-6714 · Personal Real Estate Liaison, Realtor® · CalDRE #02257808 · Responsible Broker CalDRE #01481919
The landmarks and traditions that make Coronado unlike anywhere else, in the order they arrived.
Coronado's landmarks each have a story: a Victorian hotel, a tent-city summer tradition, a famous flight, a movie shoot and a bridge that changed everything. Here they are in order.
For the latest on local history, visit the Coronado Museum of History and Art, which offers free exhibits.
On February 19 the Victorian seaside hotel opens with 399 rooms and electric lighting, the largest resort hotel in the world at the time.
A nine-hole golf course opens, an early sign of the leisure life that would define Coronado.
John D. Spreckels builds Tent City south of the hotel, an inexpensive seaside camp that draws vacationers for decades.
On December 25 the hotel lights what it calls the world's first electrically lit outdoor living Christmas tree, a holiday tradition ever since.
Charles Lindbergh departs North Island in the Spirit of St. Louis on May 10, on the first leg of his journey toward the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic.
Billy Wilder's classic comedy, filmed at the Hotel del Coronado, brings the seaside landmark to movie screens around the world.
The graceful, curved bridge opens on August 3, becoming a beloved skyline landmark and the island's front door.
The Hotel del Coronado is designated a National Historic Landmark on May 5, recognizing its architecture and history.
On June 20 a passenger ferry sails again between the Ferry Landing and downtown, and the waterfront marketplace grows around it.
Many of these places are part of everyday life: the ferry to a ball game, the bridge at sunset, the Hotel del at the end of a beach walk. Rudy can help you find a home where the island's story is right outside your door.
Historical facts come from public sources and local histories and may be simplified. Rudy is not a historian, so for deeper research visit your local historical society.