Mori's Point Inn

In the late 1800s, Stefano Mori and his family arrived from Italy and farmed this land, grazing cattle and horses, and built a rambling 21-room farmhouse that became Mori's Point Inn, a haven for travelers, bootleggers, and diners. Mori's was an oasis on the long road between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay. During Prohibition in the 1920s, Stefano's son Jack turned the inn into a speakeasy, running Canadian whiskey from smugglers' ships off the point. Federal agents arrested Jack Mori and confiscated thousands of cases of whiskey from his farm in 1923. Stefano's younger son, Ray, and his wife, Marie, rescued the roadhouse in 1932 and revived it as a restaurant, hotel, and dancehall. It kept its lively reputation until 1965, when Mori's Inn burned to the ground.

Pacifica, California · United States