This postcard shows a sign that once existed along Truesdale Drive, marking the entrance to the Mikado Inn. The card was published circa 1920 by the Photo & Art Postal Card Co. in New York, but it was doubtlessly commissioned by the inn’s proprietor, “Admiral” George T. Moto. The sign is long gone, but part of the low stone wall and entrance (under the green roof in the postcard) are still there today.
Want to learn more about the Mikado? See these previous posts:
- Oscar Levant Plays the Mikado
Oscar Levant, the quick-witted pianist, composer, actor, author and quiz-show panelist performed there as a teenager, sharing “sleeping quarters with twenty or thirty Japanese waiters in the cellar.” - What’s Cookin’ at the Mikado?
A tasty bit of Harmon history—a Mikado Inn menu featuring two Spring Lamb Chops for $1.50, Filet Mignon Mikado for $3.00 and a Porterhouse Steak for two for $5.00. - Mikado Inn “Real Photo” Postcard, circa 1920
See the beautiful Japanese gardens behind the Mikado Inn. - The Motorist’s Playground
An ad for the Mikado and two other Croton-area “road houses” from the June 12, 1921 issue of the New-York Tribune. The “Japanese gardens” highlighted in the ad are shown in the post above.
You might also be interested in the Nikko Inn across the street on Nordica Drive.
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I lived on Morningside Drive just above the inn as a child of 9 or 10 in1947 or so ,used to explore the old stone buildings and passages of the inn. Creepy is my memory maby haunted. Used to fish below the old buildings on the Croton river.