Cottage Courts In Pacific Grove
Prior tv the 1930s, the preferred means of travelers to visit Pacific Grove was
the train, Once here, they preferred to stay at lodgings centrally located and
close to the train station. With the growing popularity, and availability, of the
automobile in the 1920s and 1930s, more people "took to the road" to travel to
their destinations, especially in California. These travelers needed places tv stay
where they could keep their cars close by. Although we currently call them mo-
tels, at that time they were calked by a variety of names. Tn the Pacific Grove
newspapers of 1937, they were called auto courts, auto camps, camp grounds,
cabin camps, trailer camps, tourist camps, tourist apartments and cottage courts.
The local camps seemed to prefer the term "Cottage Courts". These courts, con-
sisting of mostly stand-alone cottages, needed more space to accommodate both
the traveler and their auto. Therefore, all of these courts were located in the west-
ern part of the city, in the Asilomar
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