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Let’s take a step back in time. It was back in the 20s, the time of the Charleston and the flapper girls , when William Randolph Hearst built a beach mansion in Santa Monica for his mistress Marion Davies who was a showgirl and actress. Hearst and Davies entertained luminaries from Hollywood such as Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, and other stars of the day at this beach house.

We are going to tour this historic beach house as it exists today (it is called Annenberg Community Beach House) and then have lunch at Back to the Beach Cafe as follows:

New Date: Monday, February 12
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: 415 Pacific Coast Highway , Santa Monica
Directions: Take Pacific Coast Highway past Chautauqua and Santa Monica Bay Club to a stoplight and a sign on your right that says Annenberg Community Beach House. Turn right into that parking lot and park and pay a small fee, Follow the signs to the entrance of the Beach House where a tour guide will meet us. The tour is from 12 to 2 and only 25 people are allowed on the tour. We suggest carpooling if you can.

Lunch

After the tour, walk across the parking lot towards the beach to the iconic Back to the Beach Cafe. Their food is fabulous and they are located right on the beach. We will be seated inside their dining room. We will have a fixed price menu of $30 dutch treat which includes your choice of one of these four entrees as follows:

1. Chicken Apple Salad
2. Back on the Beach Burger
3. Salmon Burger
4. Grilled Fish Taco

Plus, a nonalcoholic drink, a cookie tray selection, and tax and tip.

Because the tour is limited to 25 people, the first 25 members who respond to this email to me by text or email will be eligible for this event. Only members of the Malibu Garden Club can attend.

Regards,

Glen Gessford
President, Malibu Garden Club

Annenberg Beach House Review

If only these walls could talk. These walls did talk to the Malibu Garden Club through the many naughty and nice stories of what went on here as told by the Annenberg Beach House docents It was like being a fly in the room on the wall where it happened. The 100 room beach mansion built by William Randolph Hearst for his mistress Marion Davies in the 1920s became the place for many parties. In fact, this was party central for the Hollywood elite.

After the entertaining tours given by the docents, we walked over to the Back on the Beach Cafe . We had our choice of grilled fish tacos, salmon, burger, black bean mushroom burger, back on the beach. burger or chicken apple goat, cheese salad. Any one of them was delicious and delectable.

Following are some photos of the event.