Del Mar Powerhouse Community Center - Del Mar, CA - Municipal Community Centers on Waymarking.com

The City of Del Mar owns this Center and rents it out for a minimum of three hours for $550 per hour or $4500 for an entire day. It seat 96 guests.

The Center's website (visit link) has a brief history of the building:

"In 1928, the Powerhouse was built to replace the Stratford Inn’s original powerhouse. The huge boilers in the new building supplied hot water for the pool, the hotel and the hotel’s laundry. It also supplied heat for the hotel and its cottages.

In July 1955, after the Hotel was sold during the Bankruptcy sale, only the Del Mar plunge and the Powerhouse remained unsold. It was not until 1958 that the powerhouse found an owner and was turned into a nightclub. The Powerhouse Roaring 20s, featured waitresses dressed as flappers and waiters and bartenders in derbies and vests. The night club opened October 1958 and then closed in 1962.

The Powerhouse which had been unoccupied after the Roaring 20s nightclub failed was rented in September 1965 by the Universal Water Corporation. It became a desalination plant to try to find an economic means for converting salt water to drinking water. The building underwent a complete renovation on the inside.

In 1983, the Powerhouse and the surrounding park areas were purchased by the City and a 17 year effort culminated in the creation of the Powerhouse Community Center."

Type of community center: community center Address: 1700 Coast Boulevard, Del Mar, CA 92014 Website: [Web Link]

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Date Logged Log User Rating   02/07/2011 Metro2 visited it