Mira Mar Motor Inn & Restaurant/Ship Room, Oceanside, CA (hotel) - Locating Tiki

TS Tiki Shaker Grand Member (8 years) Menifee, CA Joined: Jun 28, 2008 Posts: 775	TS Tiki Shaker Posted posted on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 5:57 PM Ok, this one took quiet a bit of research.... and the research is not done. But this is what I have. I drive past this place almost every day. Every time I look at it, I imagine it being remodeled into a big tiki restaurant. I also figured that the hotel had to have been tiki at one time, considering the a-frame overhang. I decided to start researching. This is what I have come up with so far. This hotel was built around 1959. From the postcards, the one tiki element I could find is the tiki shields that were surrounding the pool at one time. The architecture of the place was polynesian pop. Evidence of this can be seen in old the old postcards. Before the hotel was built, the restaurant existed long before. The restaurant was originally an old house and the place kept expanding. I've included the restaurant in this post because it is apart of the hotel and though it was not tiki, it was a nautical themed. The bar in the restaurant was called "The Ship Room". In front of the hotel was a sign that looked like a boat mast. The sign use to go up and down and sway back and fourth, like a ship. It is not known when this sign was removed. I talked to the people at the hotel, they knew nothing about the history. I was able to get into the restaurant, because people are actually in there fixing it up. Surprising, because I think this place has been shut down for years. Unfortunately, non of the workers spoke english so there was no information to be had as to what was going on. But luckily I was able to get a few pictures of the enterior. Postcards, showing how the place changed. Close up of architectural details. Close up of tiki shields that surrounded the pool area. Close up of The Ship Room sign How it looks now. The hotel exterior. Hotel office building/check in. No evidence of The Ship Room sign. Restaurant exterior. Side of the restaurant where The Ship Room was located. Kind of looks like a ship's stern. Nautical stained glass windows, back of restaurant. And now the inside, thru the back door. The Ship Room Cool beam inside the front entrance.

Ok, this one took quiet a bit of research.... and the research is not done. But this is what I have. I drive past this place almost every day. Every time I look at it, I imagine it being remodeled into a big tiki restaurant. I also figured that the hotel had to have been tiki at one time, considering the a-frame overhang. I decided to start researching. This is what I have come up with so far.

This hotel was built around 1959. From the postcards, the one tiki element I could find is the tiki shields that were surrounding the pool at one time. The architecture of the place was polynesian pop. Evidence of this can be seen in old the old postcards.

Before the hotel was built, the restaurant existed long before. The restaurant was originally an old house and the place kept expanding. I've included the restaurant in this post because it is apart of the hotel and though it was not tiki, it was a nautical themed. The bar in the restaurant was called "The Ship Room". In front of the hotel was a sign that looked like a boat mast. The sign use to go up and down and sway back and fourth, like a ship. It is not known when this sign was removed.

I talked to the people at the hotel, they knew nothing about the history. I was able to get into the restaurant, because people are actually in there fixing it up. Surprising, because I think this place has been shut down for years. Unfortunately, non of the workers spoke english so there was no information to be had as to what was going on. But luckily I was able to get a few pictures of the enterior.

Postcards, showing how the place changed.