PC-000-520

Picture postcard of people being served from a smorgasbord at the Hotel Imig Manor in San Diego

 

1940s

 

Hotel Imig Manor, San Diego, California, US

This picture postcard shows an interior in what was the Hotel Imig Manor Garden Room, featuring a smorgasbord from which people are being served in the photograph. The hotel was restored in 2011 and added to the U. S. National Register of Historic Places after it reopened in 2012. It was first opened in 1946 by San Diego developer Larry Imig as the Imig Manor, designed by San Diego architect Frank Hope Sr. (1901-1994). By 1949 Conrad Hilton and associates bought the property and made extensive changes, including obliterating the Imig name and image and renaming it the Hotel Manor by 1950, renaming it again in 1952 to the Lafayette Hotel. After that the site changed hands multiple times, remaining a hotel until 1965, when the opening of Interstate 8 and the ongoing decommissioning of the old US Highway 80 diverted traffic from its address on El Cajon Boulevard. From then until 1995 the property hosted offices except for the continuation of the Red Fox Steak House in the northeastern corner. In 1995 the site was purchased by InnSuites, who turned it back into a hotel. When it was sold again, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune article of October 6, 2012, buyer Jay Wentz's plans to build a high-rise condominium on this property were foiled by the recession that began in 2008, and he restored the hotel instead, along with the name Lafayette Hotel.

Imig Manor; Hotels; Lafayette Hotel and Suites; San Diego; Lafayette Hotel; Smorgasbords; Hotel Manor

2223 El Cajon Boulevard

California - San Diego

 

 

MS-0008

 

Hester & Smith, Inc., San Diego, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

 

 

 

Image

TIFF

19.50 MB