Pleasanton Hotel (site) (Pleasanton, California)

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Original address: 548 Main St.


www.pleasantondowntown.org/pdfs/WalkingTourGuide.pdf --

"This is the site of the original Pleasanton Hotel, built in 1863 by Antonio Bardellini in the Second Empire style. In about 1881 Jason Rose purchased the hotel and changed its name to the Rose Hotel.

"The famous racehorse Sea Biscuit was once stabled behind the hotel. In 1930, a jealous jockey named Sykes murdered a man at the hotel after a dispute over a woman.

"The Rose Hotel had many famous visitors, including Henry Ford, Leland Stanford of Stanford University fame and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge. It is also rumored that William Randolph Hearst kept a room at the hotel for his close friend, Marion Davies.

"In 1941 Abbot and Costello made the movie "It Ain’t Hay" at the fairgrounds and used the hotel as a backdrop.

"In 1955, Bank of America tore down the Rose Hotel for its new bank and parking lot. The bank building was later remodeled and is now Round Table Pizza. Venture inside to see old photographs of the Rose Hotel.