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  • Subject is exactly "Hotel Palomar"
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Landmark Photo Project

Date: 2001
Source: Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl304.jpg
Looking south on Pacific Avenue towards the Palomar and the Del Mar Theatre in the distance

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl294.jpg
The Palomar remains one of the few landmark buildings to survive. Here it is seen through the wreckage of the buildings across Pacific.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl272.jpg
The Palomar is still standing, though still closed; not much else is left on this block of Pacific Avenue.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl167.jpg
This part of the facade of the Palomar shows no damage at the time of the photo.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl165.jpg
Cracks in the facade of the Palomar Hotel building near the lobby entrance and the store "Limited." The Palomar's owners had just had the building retrofitted; it survives twenty years later, thanks to a modern adhesive that "superglued" cracks such…

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl144.jpg
A view through the demolition site of a large building with a small damaged building in the foreground and the Palomar in the distance across Pacific Avenue.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

http://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/uploads/scpl/scpl104.jpg
The Palomar was one of the few very old buildings to survive the 1989 earthquake. The new owners had just completed a retrofit at the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake. A new style of adhesive was used to glue the cracks caused by the quake.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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