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This vintage photo of Sunset Cliffs must be over a 100 years old (I’ll let Kathy Blavatt decide) as you can see that large pink mansion at the corner of Osprey.
But check out those huge sink holes between the street and the cliffs. They prove that the cliffs just keep changing.
Photo sent the Rag by Larry OB, a former OBcean and expert of the Cliffs.
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The Thursday Club was built in 1921, is on the triangular block at the top of the hill. The Mills Manor (Pink House) was built in 1926. Mill’s and his partner’s housing development mostly came after that. They started to build Spanish Mission-style homes on every block where they could be seen. There were covenants on the homes. Then the depression hit. Many of the homes went into default and sat empty for years.
Mills restored the Spaldings’ park (along the North end of Sunset Cliffs). Decades later, the sinkhole and linking caves were filled in. The photo was taken circa 1929 or early 1930s.
Thanks so much; you are OB’s designated historian.
Do I remember correctly? Larry is a historical treasure himself – he used to have a webpage, and photographed the INSIDE of the caves along Sunset Cliffs, probably the only photographs ever! Thank you, Larry (if I do indeed have the right person).