George Whitney purchases Cliff House, 1937
Note: neon signs installed in remodel
PG & E Progress,
April 1937
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In an interview with John Martini, George Whitney Jr. said his dad used to go into the closed Cliff House during the early Depression and fantasize about reopening it. He used to borrow the key to the CH from "the Sutros", go into the main dining room and pull up a chair in the southwest corner where he could look over Ocean Beach and Playland, and dream about expanding the Whitney empire, which of course is exactly what he did. |
Approximately 1937 (based on a similar photo
in the SFPL collection)
Approximately 1940, courtesy John Martini
WWII contest for Irving
Sinclair painting
Image courtesy of Dennis O'Rorke