Villa Riviera Hotel

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Cars park on Ocean Boulevard in front of the Villa Riviera Hotel in Long Beach. A man walks by the lawn and gardens that extend from the front of the hotel. Photograph dated: July 26, 1939.The Villa Riviera Hotel, 800 East Ocean Boulevard, constructed in 1929, was second in height at that time only to Los Angeles City Hall. Its architect, Richard D. King, won a grand prize at an international contest for his design of the sixteen-story building. The cost of construction was over two million dollars. At one time, Joseph M. Schenck of Twentieth Century-Fox and Norma Talmadge, then his wife, owned the hotel. It survived the Long Beach earthquake with only plaster cracks which were easily repaired and is a Long Beach landmark.