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Each picture of the Hotel quadrangle has a small thumbnail map showing you where it is in the grand plan! For example:
Here is a large map of the layout of the resort, the biggest in the Western Hemisphere at the time!:
Here is a brief history of the place:
BRIEF HISTORY OF AGUA CALIENTE:"From 1919 to 1933, alcohol, casinos, pros_titution and horse race betting were all forbidden or tightly restricted in California, and all were easily available in Tijuana. Agua Caliente, Tijuana, was opened in 1928. It lay only six miles South of the Border, less than 20 miles from San Diego, accessible by train, a one hour plane ride from Los Angeles, it covered 655 acres and cost about $10 million at the time. It became the most lavish and popular resort in the Western Hemisphere, a vacation destination for the Hollywood elite, other celebrities and ordinary Americans. All this came to an end with the legalization of casino gambling in Nevada in 1931; the repeal, in 1933, of Prohibition's 18th Amendment in the U.S.; the relaxing of gambling at California racetracks and the building of the lavish Santa Anita racetrack in 1934; and, finally, the criminalization of gambling in Mexico in 1935.
Here is my MAIN Agua Caliente page:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/AguaCalienteChips.htm
Here are some YouTube links showing actual films of the place some 100 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbb_yvkGYek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ-QCQoTkkQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbXipjSYBo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBnM_tUP6-c
http://inoldlasvegas.com/agua_caliente.html
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/104244/In-Caliente-Original-Trailer-.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bROtR5ivyZw
Robert
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