Hotel Del Coronado — San Diego, CA, United States
About Hotel Del Coronado
"The Del" was a "winter paradise" to sunbird L. Frank Baum for the years he wrote sequels to The Wizard of Oz , who honeymooned at the beachfront Victorian resort and returned multiple times in the following years. In fact, Coronado's sunset-tinged Orange Ave. and the Crown Room's chandelier-spangled are parallels to the yellow brick road and the city of Oz for visitors. In Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John , Baum describes the hotel as a “labyrinth of passages” connecting its many rooms, and the Emerald City of the later Oz books increasingly overlap with the characteristics of the fin-de-siêcle grand hotel, with their banquets, dances, guests, gardens, and receptions. As far back as the original (1900) Wizard of Oz , Dorothy must navigate 3 flights of stairs and 7 hallway passages to get to room, in the style of the fanciest hotels of the time. And the throne room, a round arena with…
Literary significance
Past programming has included Victorian tea, holiday meals in the Crown Room, and an Emerald Bar (and a private centenary Oz event). Christmas decorations have invoked the Emerald City, and exhibits feature the hotel's history in other ways, too, like those paying tribute to the Del's part in classic films like Marilyn Monroe's Some Like It Hot .
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1500 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118, United States