A little bit more I found out about Woodruff's development:
DANA POINT & STILLWATER BAY
By Dennis Kaiser
Dana Point News
DANA POINT, CA-Those who walk out on the pier in Dana Point Harbor may not realize how the structure is related to a dream that was never fully realized. The first pier was built decades ago, long before the Harbor was constructed 30 years ago. In those days, the harbor was known as Stillwater Bay. The pier was the only structure that was actually completed by early Dana Point developer Sidney Woodruff.
Woodruff was famous for developing Hollywoodland. The last four letters were later dropped and the rest is, as they say, history. In Dana Point, Woodruff was developing homes based around the lantern theme for the streets along Santa Clara Boulevard. Above the harbor, however, was to be his masterpiece, the Dana Point Inn. The luxury hotel was to have such amenities as an elevator to bring guests to the beach below the cliffs. Once on the beach, Woodruff envisioned people enjoying aquaplaning, baths with a salt water plunge, a yacht club, boat moorings and the pleasure pier for fishing expeditions.
When the depression came, Woodruff was not able to complete his grand hotel. Only the pier was finished. Remnants of the partially constructed hotel are seen in the arches behind the Admiralty condominiums. (And in the cemented-up opening down at the bottom of the cliffs in the Harbor, where Woodruff's elevator was supposed to deliver his guests. Ironically, the hotel's bar - really a speakeasy - was designed to accommodate 1,500 patrons, while the hotel could only accommodate 200 over-night guests; at a time when alcohol was illegal, at the height of Prohibition. Dana Point On-Line Editor)
Woodruff, however, set the standard still followed today as the Harbor still contains a fishing pier near the site of the original pier.
SOURCE: Excerpted from the 24 June, 1999, issue of the Dana Point News, from an article entitled, "Dana Point Yesterdays: Pleasure Pier."