Tag: Catalina Island

  • Catalina’s Pavilion Lodge

    Catalina’s Pavilion Lodge

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    lindsay
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    ‘ This morning my family and I traveled to Catalina Island for a little summer vacay.  We’”‘”‘ve been planning this trip for quite some time now and, let me tell you, I could not have been more excited to finally arrive!  Ever since my grandmother gave me Robert Wagner’”‘”‘s autobiography, Pieces of My Heart: A Life,  for Christmas last year, I…

  • Marilyn Monroe’s Catalina House

    Marilyn Monroe’s Catalina House

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    lindsay
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    ‘ The most important item on my Catalina Island stalking list was the home where a very young Marilyn Monroe lived with her first husband James Dougherty during the years 1943 to 1944.  This was long before Miss Monroe became a Hollywood icon and household name, back when she was just a girl who was…