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| | History - City Industry/Culver Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | The Culver Hotel opened in 1924, to September 4 headlines in the Culver City Daily News, "City Packed with Visitors for Opening of Culver Skyscraper." The six-story hotel, then named the Hotel Hunt, was called the "latest monument to his vision," his referring to the city's founder, Harry Culver. |
 | | The city moved their offices nearby to Van Buren Place, and a new movie theatre, the Meralta, was built on the site of today's Meralta Plaza (mid-block), to make way for this new landmark hotel. |
 | | It was the tallest structure between the "pueblo" of Los Angeles and Abbot Kinney's resort of Venice. |
| www.ci.culver-city.ca.us /cityinfo/history/culverhotel.html (1085 words) |
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