Crystal Cove Cottage

by Joan Carroll

Title

Crystal Cove Cottage

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photograph

Description

There is still work to do at Crystal Cove CA (north of San Clemente), lots of it, about $20 million of it! That money would go to the restoration of many Pacific coast seaside cottages built as long ago as the 1920s. The already-restored cottages are in high demand for overnight accommodation. I wasn't lucky enough to stay in one, but I was lucky enough to have a friend take me to the beach there so we could see the cottages and walk the beach. To me, the unrestored cottages (as the one shown here) were more interesting from a photographic point of view than the restored ones! For more info, the following is from Karin Gallagher of the San Clemente Times: Less than 20 miles from San Clemente, up the twisting Pacific Coast Highway, you can step back in time to a preserved sliver of California coastal history. To a three-mile stretch of beach that looks today nearly the same way it did nearly a century ago. To the remnants of a unique community cobbled together out of the flotsam of the film industry and the jetsam of Poseidon's pantry. And you don't need a time machine to get there, either. Crystal Cove State Park Historic District, 12.3 acres within the nearly 3,000-acre Crystal Cove State Park, is perhaps most famous for its 46 rustic cottages originally built between the 1920s and 1950s, some of which first served as movie sets. In addition to the cottages that still line the shore and bluff, families of campers once spent entire summers in tents,or cabanas, right on the beach. "It was a set for Hollywood filmmakers during the silent-film boom, a drop-off spot for Prohibition-era rumrunners, a destination for motorists during the early auto-touring movement, a staging ground for postwar tiki parties and luaus, and a continual source of inspiration for nearby Laguna's famed art community," writes Laura Davick, one of three co-authors of Crystal Cove Cottages: Islands in Time on the California Coast . Today Davick, who grew up in Cottage #2, serves as the president and founder of the Crystal Cove Alliance (CCA), the nonprofit organization that was formed in 1999 and helped defeat plans to demolish the cottages and turn the area into a luxury hotel resort. Due to CCA's efforts to protect, preserve and restore the historical district, 13 unique cottages, 10 individual and three dormitory-style, have been made available as overnight rentals to the general public since June 2006; nine other cottages are used for visitor-serving functions, including operational support, concessions and the check-in office. "We are focused on trying to raise the necessary funds to restore the remaining 24 cottages so that we will be able to bring 17 of those online for overnight rentals," says Davick, who estimates it will require about $20 million to complete the project.

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