The Sidney Chaplin Building (656 S. Coast Hwy 101)

“The Ritz billiard parlor and barber shop... hat and cold baths... Sidney Chaplin building” - Coast Dispatch ad, 1925

This building is noteworthy because its owner in the ‘20s was a brother of movie star Charlie Chaplin. Sidney owned other property as well... several lots near today's Self Realization Fellowship and property on the hillside overlooking Downtown. Charlie Chaplin purchased property here as well. Soon after a two-story Neoclassical home was completed on Neptune in 1925, he bought it for his mother.