Title: Flamingo Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida

Summary: "The Flamingo Hotel is one of Miami Beach's imposing and fashionable resort hotels, overlooking Bay Biscayne on the west shore of Miami Beach."--Caption on verso.

Collection Title: Florida Postcard Collection

Collection No.: ASM0299

Archive: asm02990000730001001.tif

Container: Box No.: 9, Folder Title: Miami Beach -- Hotels.

Coverage Spatial: Biscayne Bay (Fla.); Miami Beach (Fla.);

Physical Description: 1 color postcard

Digital ID: asm02990000730001001

Note: Entrepreneur Carl Fisher built the Flamingo for $2 million at 15th Street and the Bay; it opened on New Year's Eve, 1920. The Flamingo had a colorful past: in January of 1921, President-elect Warren G. Harding spent the winter there, and in February, 1926, rum-runner Duncan "Red" Shannon was killed by the Coast Guard in front of the hotel. The Flagler Memorial Monument on Monument Island in Biscayne Bay stands opposite to Flamingo Hotel. In 1935, the city of Miami Beach purchased the recreation grounds of the Hotel for $300,000 to create a city park called Flamingo Park. 14210N-56.

Publisher: Pictorial Centre

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Series: Series: III Miami Beach

Subject: Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach, Fla.); Hotels; Seaside resorts; Seaside architecture; Shorelines; Color in architecture

Genre: Postcards;Aerial views

Repository: Digital Collections

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Source: From: Flamingo Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida