Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Calif. 1919. Menu (17.6 x 13.5 cm.), [2] pages. A menu for this historic resort hotel on Santa Catalina Island. The Hotel St. Catherine was born of a disastrous fire of 1915, during which the Banning home burnt to the ground, taking much of Avalon with it. The Banning family built the original Hotel on the site of the fire, opening on June 28, 1918, a......