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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Pueblo Oratorio
I wasn't aware the Chapman Hotel & Bungalows had a private chapel somewhere on it's grounds.
http://www.ebay.it/itm/CPSM-INTERIOR...kAAOSwAKxWUBvr
Here's a second postcard I found that mentions the Pueblo Oratorio.
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Does anyone know where the chapel was located on the hotel grounds?
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Here's a picture of it, on the corner c. 1937. The first wedding was held in it Jan 31, 1937, for the Arthur L. Valentines.
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Part of it was taken up for the Zephyr Room
postcard view
Starting in November 1945, into 1950 the radio reality show Bride & Groom was broadcast from Chapman Park Hotel. The host interviewed couples about how they met, where they went on their first date, etc (it's corney but kind of cute), then they would marry off-mike, in the Chapman's chapel, and afterward came back on the show. In exchange they got a bunch of loot like appliances and tableware plus a free honeymoon.
postcard advertising Bride & Groom
The mural in the postcard "the Annunciation" was done by Alfredo Ramos Martinez in 1936 and apprently painted over after only a few years. In 1957 the Secret Harbor restauraunt now occupying the Zephyr space expanded into the then-unused chapel and demolished the apse where the mural was. Part of the article about it from the
Times at the time the the Chapman was being wrecked in 1967:
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