Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: San Carlos Hotel, Pensacola.
The Catalina Inn opened at 33rd Street and Interstate 4 connected to the Catalina Isles neighborhood that still sits between the hotel and Clear Lake behind it. Since it’s opening in the late 1960s the hotel has had many names.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Hotel Continental that once stood at the corner of Collins Avenue and 40th Street featured on this unmarked postcard.
Here’s teh still surviving El Rancho Hotel Court, now more referred to as a motel. I seem to recall the sign being around in the early ’80s. Don’t know when the sign came down, but would guess it was during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are parts of a fold out brochure for the Copacabana Motel in Daytona Beach. I think the lawyers today would advice the Copacabana Motel not to have the image of the folks sitting on the ledge. A search[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a quadra-fold (or something like it) brochure for Ocean Terrace Apartments in Delray Beach. An address wasn’t added to the brochure, so I’m not sure if the apartments are still around. there is a huge condo complex there now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy finds an early version of a barber chair at the Riverview Hotel in New Smyrna Beach. Click here to learn more and plan your own visit to the Riverview Hotel.