**Buildings Visited on the Tour **
Here's the list, Paradise Point has a great 9 hole tropical putting course, bring your own clubs and ball so you don't have to pay 5 bucks to use it.
LOTS of places they missed, we should just add to this list!
Paradise Point Resort & Spa, originally named Vacation Village
1404 Vacation Road, Mission Bay
Built: 1962 • Architects: Eldridge F. Spencer of Spencer & Lee
This 44-acre tropical island village is laid out around a central lagoon.
The lagoon’s landmark observation tower provides breath-taking views of
Mission Bay. Although remodeled recently, the dominant eyebrow gables
of the main lobby, gift shop, and convention center’s architectural style
evokes a modern-day Bali resort island.
Trader Mort’s Liquor Store, originally named Hooch Hut
2904 Shelter Island Drive
Built: c. 1966 • Architect: Ronald K. Davis, AIA
Built on compacted fill, which was part of the original causeway
connecting Loma Portal to Shelter Island. A scaled-down version of a
1950’s Daisy’s restaurant, it features a rising jonglo-inspired truncated hip
roof extending out over a lanai, with reversed rafters resembling a ship’s
ribs, wood shingles, lava rock-veneer, subtropical landscaping and Tiki
god iconography, both inside and out.
Tikified Street Furniture
Shelter Island Drive, south of Anchorage Lane
Abstract wood and concrete Tiki totem poles used as street bollards, sign
poles, fence posts, and sidewalk pedestrian rest area pergolas.
Stan Miller Yacht Sales, originally named Shelter Cove Marina & Yacht Sales
2540 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1963-1965 • Architect: Robert Platt
Another impressive Robert Platt design, it takes Tiki Modern/Nautical
to the ‘nth degree. It has all of the design features: a soaring cantilevered
A-frame roof, protruding flying triangular gable, outrigger buttressing,
yet without the Polynesian ebullience.
Hallmark Yacht Brokers
2525 Shelter Island Drive
Built: c. 1957 • Architect: Robert Platt
One of the few two-story Polynesian Maritime Modern style buildings on
Shelter Island, its character-defining features include a cross-gable wood
shingle roof, corbelled beam ends, broadly overhanging exposed
rafters, and wide display windows along the ground floor. The
stucco-clad ground floor resembles lime-plastered coral block
walls typical of early 19th century Hawaiian missionary homes.
The Crow’s Nest, originally named Chris Craft Boat Sales
2515 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1957 • Architect: Robert Platt & Assoc.
Exotic landscaping and a magnificent view of the yacht harbor
complement this L-shaped vertical batten-clad Hawaiian Ranch
House. Its wood shingled roof features canted gables, exposed
rafters, protruding corbelled ridge beams and purlins, supported
by knee braced reversed flying buttresses.
Nielsen Beaumont Marine Inc., originally named Mauricio &
Sons, Boat Building and Repair
2420 Shelter Island Drive
Built: c. 1965
A utilitarian blending of Mid-century Nautical Modern with Cape
Cod and Craftsman style influences.
Pearson Marine Fuel Dock and Deli, originally named Baker
Standard Marine Service/Gas Station
2435 Shelter Island Drive
Built: c. 1962
Another hybrid, its character-defining features include an eye-
catching abstract Tiki Modern style wood-shingled A-frame roof
joining twin rectangular flat-roofed board ‘n batten boxes.
David L. Fraser Yacht Brokerage, originally named Gold Coast
Anchorage, Yacht Brokerage and Naval Architects
2353 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1960 • Architect: Robert Platt
While more characteristic of Abstract Nautical than Tiki Modern,
it still presents a marine-oriented South Seas atmosphere. This
can be seen in its centrally located A-frame roof, board-n-batten
siding, triangular and square fenestration, flying buttresses, vent
stacks, cleat door handles, and signage.
Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn & Suites, originally named Half Moon
Anchorage/Boat-tel
2303 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1959 • Architect: Hiram Hudson Benedict & Assoc.
One of the landmark Tiki Modern resort hotels in San Diego, its soaring
porte cochere/lobby entry emulates the protruding bow of a Polynesian
fishing canoe, complete with hanging lantern used to attract fish.
Humphrey’s by the Bay Restaurant, originally named the Tahitian
2241 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1964 • Architect: Armet & Davis, Los Angeles
Reminiscent of a Polynesian men’s meeting house or halau wa’a (canoe
shed), the restaurant’s entry and foyer is a classic swayback or broke-
back A frame, with projecting gables, ridge beams, rafter buttresses,
canoe-bow rafter tails, and irregularly laid “Barney Rubble” limestone
walls.
Silvergate Yacht Club
2091 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1965 • Architect Robert Platt
An eclectic mix of maritime and modern suburban architectural features,
it includes shiplap siding, plate glass windows, a mast and cupola. And
a monolithic chimney and Atomic Age zigzag “George Jetson” roof
treatment.
Yokohama Friendship Bell
Center of Shelter Island Drive’s western traffic loop
Dedicated: December 11, 1960 “to eternal good will between San
Diego and [Yokohama,] its Japanese sister city.” During its dedication
ceremony, Bishop Yamada of Los Angeles’ Zen Shu Buddhist temple
pulled the lanyard on the bell’s outside battering ram-like clapper to
ring the bell 18 times. After the ceremony, the lanyard and planks
across the moat were removed to “prevent mischief.”
Shelter Island Substation & Dock, San Diego Harbor Police
Department
1401 Shelter Island Drive
A fusion of Hawaiian Territorial and California Modern Ranch styles
with a utilitarian nautical flare. Just south is Pacific Rim Park, which
contains two James T. Hubbell works: Pearl of the Pacific (1998) and
Pacific Spirit (2002). A third sculpture, Pacific Portal (2002), can be seen
makai of the round-about east toward the Bali Hai Restaurant.
Bali Hai Restaurant, originally named The Hut
2230 Shelter Island Drive
Built: 1953-55 • Architect: Raymond Frazier
Originally a local franchise of the Christian’s Hut chain of Newport
Beach Tiki bars, by the mid-50s its manager Tom Ham rechristened
it after mythical forbidden isle of hidden native women in James
Michener’s 1946 book, Tales of the South Pacific, which was later made
into the Broadway musical South Pacific in 1949. Look for the iconic
“Goof” and “Mr. Bali Hai” sculptures.
Islands Restaurant, Hotel, & Gardens at the Hanalei Hotel - 1965
2270 Hotel Circle North in Mission Valley
Mission Bay Park Tourist Information Center Building - 1968
Intersection of Clairemont Drive and East Mission Bay Drive
Mission Bay Automotive - c. 1960
1125 Morena Boulevard, Bay Park, San Diego
Catamaran Motor Hotel - 1958-69
3999 Mission Boulevard, Pacific Beach, San Diego
Windansea Surf Shack - 1947 to present
On the beach at Neptune Place and Nautilus Street in La Jolla
Balboa Mortuary and Crematorium - 1963-64
4266 Mt. Abernathy Avenue, Clairemont, San Diego
Balboa Branch, San Diego Public Library - 1971
4255 Mt. Abernathy Avenue, Clairemont, San Diego
1st Baptist Church of Clairemont - c. 1955
3219 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard/Luna Avenue
American Housing Group Homes - Mid-1950’s
Boxford, Betlyhill, Berwick, and Chandler Drives, Northeast Clairemont
Campus Medical-Dental Center - c. 1958
6244 El Cajon Boulevard, Rolando, San Diego
West Coast Worship Center - 1971
8691 Echo Drive, La Mesa
Prescott Residence - c. 1958-1960
3744 Andrew Street, Spring Valley
The Flying Bridge Restaurant - c. 1958-60
1105 N Coast Highway, Oceanside
Hawaiian Gardens Suite Hotel - 1972
1031 Imperial Beach Boulevard, Imperial Beach
