This is a detail from the lobby of the Courtyard San Diego Downtown, which is where J and I stayed on our honeymoon. Although we chose this hotel primarily because of its location, we were pleasantly surprised when we learned it is housed in the 1920s San Diego Trust and Savings building, which was beautifully restored when the bank was re-purposed as a hotel.
We never made it to the basement to explore the hotel’s conference rooms, which are housed in the bank’s old vaults. But simply hanging around the first floor lobby made us feel like a million bucks.
This is my contribution to today’s Photo Friday theme, Architecture.
Oct 27, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Somehow it reminds me of the setting for an old-fashioned bank robbers movie, in black and white, with James Cagney or Edward G.Robinson. No?
Lovely photo anyway.
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Oct 27, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Yep, that’s it exactly.
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