Yesterday’s photo of Carl’s Sea Air Lodge didn’t show the lighthouse that stood across the Roosevelt Highway (later Pacific Coast Highway.) Built in 1927, the Pacific Palisades Lighthouse had a working light but, unlike most lighthouses, it also had a restaurant which took advantage of the views of the water and coastline, as well as a bathhouse, and lifeguard headquarters. So it was a popular destination and not a lone light on an otherwise deserted and desolate coastline. In the early 1930s the whole place along with the beach was sold to Will Rogers, and later the beach was given to the state of California and renamed the Will Rogers State Beach, which is the stretch of coast directly north of Santa Monica.

This lighthouse was located near what is now the junction of Pacific Coast Highway and Chautauqua Boulevard, in Pacific Palisades.