Starlite Roof, Hotel El Cortez, San Diego 1950s

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Starlite Roof, Hotel El Cortez, San Diego 1950sThe beautiful El Cortez hotel in San Diego, California, was built from 1926 to 1927, and this menu cover depicts the plush Starlite Roof lounge that afforded a wonderful view of downtown and the harbor. By all accounts, it was a glamorous place the large El Cortez sign illuminated at night was added in 1937 and in the 1950s the worlds first outside glass elevator known as the Starlite Express was installed by then owner Harry Handlery who used the

They renamed it The Door but the intimate acoustic nightclub scene was already on the wane and the club closed for good less than a year later

for drinks at The Brass Rail

his brother Steve and their mother Marion were the final owners of Little Joe’s

first opened its doors in 1865

but was moved to the H Street area when a new federal building was built there

Trini was the first artist to mix folk songs with the-then nascent genre of rock and roll and traditional Latin American rhythms

who had borrowed $2

as blindingly white as the surrounding sand

the Southern Pacific Railroad

offering the last word in modern restaurant appointments

Nassau was originally built in 1923 for P & O and launched as the Mongolia

the SS Italis