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Brook Room dining room with indoor brook, Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, California, circa 1940

Subjects
InteriorsRestaurants & TavernsRivers & Streams
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Brook Room dining room with indoor brook, Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, California, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard
Front
Back of Brook Room dining room with indoor brook, Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, California, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard
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About this postcard

The picture shows the Brook Room of the Brookdale Lodge, a dining room built among towering redwoods with a natural creek running through it, crossed by a small wooden bridge and tumbling over a waterfall beside the tables. Ferns, ivy and flowers crowd the banks, and a round mirror hangs on the wood-paneled wall above the bridge. The lodge, in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, grew from an 1880s resort into a well-known mountain inn whose Brook Room was its signature attraction, with diners seated along the stream that flows through the building.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Mimi. Thanks for your card, have it in return. I now collect only large letter cards! El Clissold

PublisherC. B. Bender
BROOK THROUGH WORLD FAMOUS DINING ROOM BROOKDALE LODGE, BROOKDALE, CALIF. — 17 --- Built over a running stream, the dining room at Brookdale, Santa Cruz County, Calif., has become known throughout the world. PUB. BY C. B. BENDER, SANTA CRUZ, CALIF. MADE IN U. S. A. BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. 18765N POST CARD
Addressed to
El Ainsworth

2228 San Jose Ave., Alameda, California

Postcard record

PublisherC. B. Bender
Series17
ConditionGood
Place depictedBrookdale Lodge, Brookdale, CA
NotesLinen-textured stock with a thin white border; card number 17 printed at lower right of caption. No postmark or stamp — card was never mailed. Divided-back linen-era chrome card printed by E. C. Kropp Co. (K/E/Co/C stamp box), card no. 18765N; light edge/corner wear, faint toning.

Cite this card

Brook Room dining room with indoor brook, Brookdale Lodge, Brookdale, California, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/brook-room-dining-room-with-indoor-brook-brookdale-lodge-bro. Accessed October 24, 2026.