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$100 Million Dream (Inn)

Where: 175 West Cliff Dr. [map], Santa Cruz, CA, United States, 95060

The world now knows it as the Coast Santa Cruz Hotel, but it'll always be the Dream Inn to me.

Why, as a lad, it's where I spied on bikini-clad NoCal chicks (mmmmm, NoCal chicks, drool) with binculars from my beach-side balcony. Big Dipper? You betcha!

(God, last week seems like eons ago!)

But now it seems some Idaho hospitality mogul is going to replace the entire building with a $100 million 270-room hotel, if we're to believe the San Jose Mercury News.

"The look of the hotel will remain unclear at least until September, when architect Mark Hornberger of San Francisco promises a peek at his plans. Until then, said Northwest Hospitality President Robert J. Suits, 'He won't even tell me,'" sayeth the Merc.

-- some of those coin-operated telescopes might be cool, too.