This brochure of the King Arthur Inn, that was in Tampa, actually has a fold out cover. After you open the flaps in the front you see the interior below. Below that is the flip side.
The hotel is now gone and now home to a car lot on the Dale Mabry Highway.
Next week is a matchbook from the hotel right next door to the Motor Lodge.
Next door to the hotel was the White Turkey Restaurant owned by Champ Williams.
This was also the hotel with the tall diving board that could provide a high-dive into Lake Rowena.
Don’t know when this matchbook was around, but the motel is. Click here for more information of this motel in Port St. Joe.
The San Carlos Hotel (also know as ‘The Gray Lady of Palafox’, in that the structure sat on Palafox Street) opened in 1910 and thrived for many decades. As with many multi-story hotels of the later 1800s & early 1900s across Florida, the advent of the roadside motel took it’s toll on occupancy. The hotel struggled as a low rent place for residences to it’s end in 1982. The building was demolished in 1993. It is now the site of a U.S. Courthouse.
Here’s a small brochure advertising the Naples Beach Hotel. Ah, the old American Plan!
The hotel opened in 1948 and I would say this brochure came out with in a few years of it’s opening. It’s still around, too! Click here to learn more about the hotel – With a very different rate plan! 
The Riviera was a grand hotel along the Halifax River in Volusia County for many years. It still stands, without the large letters on top, as a retirement home.
There are a number of changes, such a as a large modern addition on the south side of the building and accessible from US 1. Also the beautiful garden trail to the river is gone and homes line the pathway. Nevertheless, unlike so make structures historic structures demolished over time, this one is still there and proving the test of time.
On the back of the 1940 postcard are some very interesting rates!
Below is a location map of the Riviera:
This is certainly one of the most legendary motel/hotels in Central Florida. Still remembered today by the locals, it is still missed when over 40 years ago the set of motel tee pee rooms was demolished to make way for the East/West Expressway.
If you don’t know, each “tee pee” was a full motel room. Inside it looked just like a normal motel/hotel room. Otherwise there was a feel of being in a tee pee village of about 12 units.
This ad is from ‘Orlando Attraction’ from February 1952. It is full of terrific ads and many will be shown here in the next few weeks.
This was back when a dollar off took a larger percentage from the hotel bill.
The Imperial ’400′ Motel is now the ‘Luna Sea Motel’. You can find them here.
This ad was in a 1971 copy of ‘Florida’s Space Coast’.
Here’s a postcard on ice! There’s no postmark on the back, but would guess this is from around 1960.
Here’s an advertisement from a small little give-a-way from 1952 named ‘What’s Doing in Winter Haven.
If you have a memories of the Winter Haven Court or of Winter Haven please leave a few below!
