During the decade of the ’50s, the Coast Inn hosted beach parties in May. What fun! And what a great way to advertise. A stage was built for live entertainment…
I think Pappy felt the need for some siesta time. He likes the desert heat and Calexico/Mexicali beer. He bought 4 lots from the Church for $3,000. He built what…
Pappy needed a varience but Evans protested a new remodel, which included 8 rooms. Ed Hobert (Carolyn Hobert Fish’s dad) was the building inspector for the city at this time…
Karl, Grandpa’s second son, lives on TOW with his 3 kids. One of his three children, Suzie Smith, has developed polio as a young child. She even has to stay…
So now Pappy constructed the bay windows we see today in the upper portion of the hotel between the main open room off PCH and the lower portion nearest the…
During the war the Coast Inn was one hotel, bar, restaurant and beach that the servicemen would frequent in Laguna. It was so popular I heard stories of ladies flying…
1941 marks a new era for the Coast Inn. The eating area and the South Seas has now been decorated into its ever long popular Polynesian style or Tiki. If…
Back in the ’30s, Laguna Canyon would get sock in with fog. This one evening offered a surprise. Pappy & Caroline hosted a 21st birthday party for their second son,…
A world-class swimmer, Buster Crabb stays in the Inn as well as other noted guests of this decade. Caroline Smith, my grandmother, throws a 4th of July party. She is…
Pappy applied for and received his liquor license. By this time the Smith family knew other establishments that wanted a liquor license. The Spigot received their license just 2 years…
Last year Pappy finally added on ten additional upstairs rooms. Anyone who has stayed in one notes just how compact the size is but it still remains very popular today.…
Grandpa bought at least one of the Olympic Cottages. I read somewhere he bought a few and used them somehow, but I didn’t find anything to be clear. He placed…