What is currently known as the Naval Surface Warfare Center and California Rehabilitation Center was once a playground for the wealthy and well-known early in the 20th century. This playground was known as the grand Norconian Hotel and Resort, founded by Rex B. Clark, also the City of Norco’s first serious developer. Since the building of the resort supreme (Cobbe, Snow, Bruinsma 12), the facility underwent three distinct phases. The first was the hotel, the …showed first 75 words of 1920 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1920 total…that the buzzer and the light on the corner went off every time was driven by it after eighth grade football practice. What was once a grand luxury resort is now the crumbling remains of yesterday, occupied by prisoners and personnel of the Navy. Its heyday may be over, but to me the Norconian Hotel and Resort will be remembered as an area of undeveloped land that encompassed every rich and pleasurable in the 1920’s.