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Originally Posted by Mxfrank
I doubt that mix has any gravel. It looks like a base coat that's maybe cement and sand, and a finish coat that's a high-lime stucco mix. Just enough water to make it stick. The final finish was almost certainly sprayed, not troweled. It's going to be pretty hard to match the pattern with hand tools. But if you can get the color close, it may look ok.
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My best guess is that it's a spray on method, perhaps a heavier duty version of those air compressor powered drywall texturing guns.
The house is easily 50 to 75 years old, it's in the high-end section between the U Cal and the Claremont Hotel.
A widowed Japanese woman, easily in her 80s, runs it as a rooming house. She has about 6 boarders. She's a smart and tough cookie, and I have sort of a soft spot for her, as she reminds me of the old Japanese women that you see in Kurosawa movies.
The gravel idea might actually work though. The only downside is I'm pretty sure I'd have to buy relatively large bags of gravel and stucco mortar to do the job. Wouldn't cost that much, but then you have large bags of stuff to either throw away or hang onto for 10 years and never use. Not to mention just about any Portland cement product goes bad after a year or even less sitting on the shelf. Water vapor degradation apparently. I've learned the hard way to mix up a sample batch of any of that stuff ahead of time to see if it still sets up.