Florida's Fabled Inns, the last and most ambitious book of the late journalist-historian Louise K. Frisbie, is a lavishly illustrated volume highlighting the state's appeal as a tourist mecca from the 1820s, soon after the United States purchased Florida from Spain, up to the early 1950s, when the big hotels in Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Tallahassee, Pensacola, and other cities were going strong, Miami Beach's Fontainbleau was rising on the Harvey Firestone estate, and the site of the Magic Kingdom was a cow ...
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Florida's Fabled Inns, the last and most ambitious book of the late journalist-historian Louise K. Frisbie, is a lavishly illustrated volume highlighting the state's appeal as a tourist mecca from the 1820s, soon after the United States purchased Florida from Spain, up to the early 1950s, when the big hotels in Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, Tallahassee, Pensacola, and other cities were going strong, Miami Beach's Fontainbleau was rising on the Harvey Firestone estate, and the site of the Magic Kingdom was a cow pasture. The motel industry was in its infancy. Louise Frisbie invites the readers to share a close-up view of the elaborate hotels of the Plant and Flager chains, built in the 1880s and 1890s, such as the Breakers at Palm Beach and the Belleview Biltmore at Clearwater; Jacksonville's lavish 19th Century St. James, Windsor, Carleton & others, beginning with Dawson & Buckles' crude inn of the 1820s; the Miami-Miami Beach hotels of the early 20th Century and the boom of the 1920s; the sophisticated old Escambia at Pensacola, and its 20th Century successor, the elegant San Carlos. Included in the Jacksonville chapter is a brief description of a specialized kind of public house, with photos--Cora Crane's elegant bordello, the Court.
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Good in Good jacket. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with minor shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket rubbed with tatter at top of spine and tear on front edge of jacket.