{"id":10917,"date":"2022-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/osiddevelopment.flywheelstaging.com\/history-of-top-gun-house-oceanside-california\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:53:47","slug":"history-of-top-gun-house-oceanside-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitoceanside.org\/blog\/history-of-top-gun-house-oceanside-california\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of the \u201cTop Gun\u201d House"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Historical Photos Courtesy Of: Oceanside Historical Society<\/a><\/p>

The History of the “Top Gun“ House<\/span><\/h2>

Contributing Writer: Kristi Hawthorne<\/a><\/p>

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Oceanside has several notable landmarks including the Pier and the historic Mission San Luis Rey.\u00a0 However, one of the most notable and beloved landmarks is what we know as the \u201cTop Gun\u201d House. It has been newly restored, in all its Victorian-detailed glory, nestled within a new oceanfront resort on North Pacific Street. \u00a0<\/p>

To tell the story of the \u201cTop Gun\u201d house, we need to go back to the earliest days of Oceanside. Andrew Jackson Myers, a rancher in the San Luis Rey Valley, noted that a railroad line had just been completed Los Angeles to San Diego (by way of Riverside) along the Pacific coastline. Myers then applied for and received a land grant of 160 acres in 1883. The trains would travel directly over Myers\u2019 new land grant making his property very valuable.\u00a0<\/p>

That year, a town was surveyed, laid out and streets were named. Myers began advertising his new town in newspapers all over Southern California. This new town of Oceanside was touted as a new \u201cresort city\u201d and excursion trains brought prospective land buyers from the inland valleys.<\/p>

The train stopped at a simple wooden platform to unload passengers. There wasn\u2019t much to see in those very early years, but one of the first commercial blocks contained the Hayes Land Office, the Louis Billiard Hall and Mayroffer\u2019s Saloon.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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