Gimme Shelter

1900: Nightly room rate at San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado: $3 and up. Monthly rental for a new nine-room house on Beaudry Avenue in downtown L.A. (“10 minutes’ walk from Third and Broadway when tunnel is completed”): $30. Cost of a “newly modern” 10-room house on a 8,100-square-foot lot on Wilshire Boulevard: $3,600.

1950: Nightly room rate at San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado: $12. Monthly rental for a two-bedroom, one-bathroom “modern luxury” apartment in Montebello Gardens: $75. Cost of a three-bedroom, 1,123- to 1,260-square-feet Van Nuys home (“These are not typical GI houses”): $9,850 to $10,400.

1999: Nightly room rate at San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado: $205 to $595. Monthly rental for an Ontario one-bedroom, one-bath apartment: $725. Cost of a five-bedroom, four-bathroom, 4,000-square-foot home in Camarillo (“A gorgeous deck with mountain views. Miles of private equestrian trails”): $675,000.