Club Casa Del Mar opened in 1926 –
Whoa – this image… The bored and dissolute nightclub crowd, the possibly under-age cigarette girl, the gentleman… or mobster center frame…
Brushing the cobwebs away I can state the facts, the Casa Del Mar is now a luxury hotel, prior to that it was a rec center for enlisted men in WWII, the headquarters of Synanon (a bogus drug rehab program and later a disbanded “church”). Prior to it’s latest incarnation it was a Pritikin Longevity Center.
But, right now I’m fascinated by ghosts…
Here are a few — lifeguards training outside the Renaissance Revival building under construction designed by architect, Charles F. Plummer; sometime in the 1920s.
