Before the highway.
Ninety-Nine Steps at Pacific Palisades in 1889.
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below: Looking south from Ninety Nine Steps (1889).
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below: Looking south toward the Ninety Nine Steps and Santa Monica in 1898
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below: Same view, more or less, in the 1930s.
I believe the large building with the numerous chimneys is Marion Davies' famous beach house.
The guest house closest to the camera still exists. The main house (with a 110 rooms) was torn down in 1956.
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