At the end of the 19th century, Hotel Redondo was the gem of Santa Monica Bay's southern shoreline. Located in what is now Veterans Park, the 225-room hotel had views of the Pacific Ocean and the Palos Verdes Peninsula and was linked to Los Angeles by 17 miles of railway track. It offered a bath on every floor, a fireplace in every room, an 18-hole golf course, a billiard room, steam heat, electricity, and Otis elevators. An orchestra played nightly at dinner, elegant entertainment was regularly available in the grand ballroom, and guests arrived either at the Redondo Railway station behind the hotel or from coastal steamers by way of the long sloping walk in front. The narrow-gauge, steam-operated Redondo Railway arrived three times a day during the week, with a fourth train from Los Angeles on Saturdays. North of the hotel, Tent City offered beachgoers tents with wooden floors and electric lights, and visitors strolling the beach gathered moonstones polished smooth by centuries of Pacific storms.