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In 1929, dynamite forever changed the look of Catalina’s Avalon Bay.
Long one of Catalina’s most prominent landmarks, Sugar Loaf Rock was a volcanic monolithrising some 50 feet above the harbor where Avalon’s iconic Casino building stands today. Early 20th-century guidebooks described the Sugar Loaf as Avalon’s “sentinel rock,” and picture postcards—like the one above from the Catalina Island Museum’s collections
