PC-000-548

Picture postcard of the Bivouac Grill Room of the U. S. Grant Hotel in San Diego

 

circa 1915

 

U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, California, US

This hand-tinted picture postcard of the Bivouac Grill Room shows the space in the U. S. Grant Hotel as it looked around the time of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915, a logo of which is printed on the reverse side. Created in 1910 as an underground ballroom, the Grill became a speakeasy, the Plata Real Nightclub, during Prohibition, with underground tunnels from the Port of San Diego. In the 1940s the space was converted to The Little Club, with big bands for entertainment, then in the 1980s was The Pavilion Ballroom, renovated in 2006 to the Celestial Ballroom. In 2011 the Bivouac Grill was restored to its original name and the later speakeasy function. This hotel underwent a slight name change to The US Grant, but its place on the National Register of Historic Sites ensured its survival with limited changes to the outside of the building. The publisher's number on the back of the card is 4028.

Bivouac Grill Room; U. S. Grant Hotel; The US Grant hotel; Hotels; Ballrooms; Restaurants; Speakeasys; Bars

326 Broadway

California - San Diego - Downtown

 

 

MS-0008

English

Eno & Matteson, San Diego, California, US

Postcard

3.5 inches x 5.5 inches

No

PC-000-866; PC-000-861; PC-000-552; PC-000-862, PC-000-863, PC-000-865

[printed in white superimposed on photograph at bottom right]
The Bivouac Grill Room, U. S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, Cal.

 

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