For nearly two decades, families posed for photos beside his towering sandcastles, couples got engaged in front of them, and holiday visitors returned year after year to see what he would build next.

CORONADO, Calif. (KSWB/KUSI) — Bill Pavlacka has been told he can no longer return to the Hotel del Coronado in Southern California. Pavlacka, known as The Sandcastle Man in Coronado, has spent nearly ...