Razed

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The 91-year old Riverside hotel succums to the gnawing appetite of a clam-chell bucket as the landmakr is razed to make way for a motel unit. The 43-room, three-story frame structure was Santa Cruz's first hotel. For many years a show place, it catered mostly to wealthy families from the bay area and the San Joaquin valley. It had been inuse until preparations for demolition in the past few weeks. The hotel's banquet facilities, constructed in recent years to house over 500 persons will be xxxwith the motel, dxxxcocktail lounge facility, according to Owner Pete Marchese. he said the xxx contain 20-plus units.