Colonial Hotel, Biscayne Boulevard, 1940s, with Some True Pulp Fiction Thrown In! Here’s a great old Kodachrome photograph, worth a good look. (The pic on the R is provided courtesy of the Florida State Archives, and dated 1946.) The Hotel gained some notoriety as the final home of a wandering heir to the Spanish throne, who met his tragic demise on Biscayne Boulevard late one evening in 1938, in a car driven by Merry Millie, the Sensational Cigarette Girl, a very only in Miami story, suitable for a pulp magazine of your choice. See link in Post to follow. The Colonial sat at 146 Biscayne Blvd. for many years, after which the building was remodeled and christened The Continental Hotel. (By no means to be mistaken for the venue made famous by Bette Midler and a young, towel-clad accompanist named Barry Manilow, elsewhere.) Currently, the fashionable B2 Hotel occupies the site. Since it is extremely convenient to the Ultra Music Festival, one of its primary questions thus far has been just what to do with so damn many high-as-the-sky guests. House them, it seems to have concluded. And so Miami moves on. The City seems to have spoiled me for other, less wildly bizarre and challenged places! Life is too short to sit around watching the paint dry! Thank you.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 05:12:12 +0000
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