Being winter time, we shall pay attention again to the tradition of taking a visit to warmer climates. Today’s virtual tour features again postcards of lodging facilities in the Sunshine State in the ’50s and ’60s. And as usual, most of the images contain some neat vehicles of the era.
Our opening postcard is at the Galt Ocean Mile Hotel, in Fort Lauderdale. And what ride of these would you have taken back in the day to visit these locations?
Dreamland Motel, Daytona Beach.
Alamo Court, Daytona Beach.
Tropic-Aire Motel, Daytona Beach.
Beach Motel, Clearwater Beach.
Sierra Motel, Daytona Beach.
Tropicana Motel, Daytona Beach.
Tahiti Beach Hotel, Daytona Beach.
Imperial Beach Motel, Daytona Beach.
Marco Polo Inn, Daytona Beach.
What a treasure of Americana! Thanks, Rich. At The Sierra Motel, a Frenchman and a Dutchman are visiting.
My Great Uncle Earl told me he and his wife Anne could winter over a few weeks in “Floridah” vs paying to heat their Orleans, MA home. Sometimes he’d trade in his Ford convertible while down there vs Massachusetts. They would stay at a small “mom and pop” motel around St Petersburg.
That looks like a Rambler woody in the parking lot of the parking lot of the Tropic-Aire motel. Rambler wagons were common in my area as a kid. Yet I don’t recall ever seeing a Rambler woody of 1950s vintage. Anyone know if the woody treatment on the Rambler was a normal factory option or a special regional build?