Tent City
by Glenn McNary
Title
Tent City
Artist
Glenn McNary
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
Tent City revisits the past, showing the early days of Coronado. Visitors to Coronado could rent a tent and stay on the beach.
The hard times of the 1890��s depression brought sugar magnate John D. Spreckels into the picture. He fell in love with ��The Del�� and became the sole proprietor by 1892. He built a grand mansion across the street on Glorietta Boulevard and established Tent City south along the strand. Tent City, with bathing facilities, carnival booths, a Ferris Wheel and dance pavilion, appealed to the emerging middle class who couldn��t afford the hotel. Unlike the hotel��s ��season�� of attracting visitors from cold climates in the winter, Tent City drew a summer crowd from hot inland California and Arizona �C a pattern that continues today. Tent City flourished until 1939.
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September 13th, 2013
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