The Encinitas Hotel
(511 S. Coast Hwy 101)
“On opening day the booster
club unfurled a banner proclaiming, ‘The town with a welcome for
you.’ â€
When W.B.
Forbes completed his new hotel in the summer of 1925, bathing
beauties in mid-thigh bathing suits and knee-high hose arrived on
opening day to pose for pictures marking the event.
On either side
of the entryway were ground level commercial shops and upstairs,
twenty-one hotel rooms equipped with what was considered to be all
the modern conveniences... each one had a sink and running water.
During World
War II, servicemen were billeted here. Today, the second floor is
office space.