..Snippets from the Redwood City Standard…

1922: “As a part of a determined campaign to wipe out all undesirable resorts on the coastside of the county, District Atty Franklin Swart filed an action in the Superior Court last Thursday named R. C. Powers, M. H. Root, Red Claire, P. Naninni, E. Calleno et al., lessees of the Princeton Hotel near Miramar, to have the establishment closed under the provisions of the Red Light Abatement Act. The complaint recites that the Princeton Hotel has been conducted contrary to the provisions of this act….”