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1675-3 Kenilworth ..- - ... ' I II a di v "iv r 0 typal! u 1.4 . ji Is 1 elm j irsi I/ 1 .4 1 4 1414 t fit 4 0 ipi RP, um_ 3r: Cif it et 0 1-4 ij ! I ell "IP fir' C111 11$ Gi II 6&. e PIN le Liii ni 1....4 illi Ci icz at IA I Cu fi.. es- ALI 1 ri c mia ;jai •ih al ° ""111 IZ al Pim 14kr 1 16.4 ‘* ° 0 as CI? al ki C 4 x 'lir"' ! Ill limn 4 3 /21 . X H LI 'rid' fia u 0 11.11 ig4 e) ,...., 1:1 , Lb .C ill• .. 4 Mreettitif trishfof Sr Till II A OcaanFrant at Mad Street - MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA Every land and water activity available wider the most ideal surroundings—Private Beach—Swimming Pool—Cabana Club—Aix Conditioned ub— Condi#ioned Dining Salon and Cocktail age_ Enclosed Terrace- - riairfriNt ricf Oceanfront at 102nd F et MIAMI BEACH, FLO coli ?LtTLLT I'Q (DITIONtD —Swi rrum n Pool -C cma CI A complete 'Resort within itself Open All Year Page 1 of 1 Subj: RE: air conditioning Date: 8/8/2004 3:31:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: Iwiggins3@earthlink.net To: HKMiamieaol.com Howard, Attached are scans from the backs of two postcards for the Kenilworth. The 1946 card said the dining salon and cocktail lounge were air conditioned and the 1947 card says "completely air-conditioned." The 1946 card most likely would have been ordered before the hotel opened. The plans could have changed during the construction (after this postcard was ordered and before the hotel was completed) to put AC in the rooms as well as the salon and lounge. The 1947 card was postmarked in 1952 and may have been printed later than 1947 with the 1947 image on the front and an updated back. Both of the cards are artist-drawn linen cards. Larry From: HKMiami@aol.com [mailto:HKMiami@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 10:36 AM To: arvamiami@bellsouth.net; RSL©hillyork.com; LWiggins3@earthlink.net Subject: air conditioning Stop the presses!! I am now looking at an article from the Miami Daily News, Oct. 28, 1946. It is about hotel construction and mentions that the Martinique is being built. But the words "air conditioned" do not appear in that sentence (even though the Martinique indeed was fully air conditioned.) Later on in the same story: "Not far distant, the $1,700,000 Hotel Kenilworth is rearing skyward. Each of its 160 rooms will be air conditioned..." The Kenilworth opened in December 1946, before the Martinique. I have tracked the Martinique claim that it was first through stories that appeared in later years which said flatly it was the first fully air conditioned hotel. The 1947 Architecture and Allied Arts magazine does say the Kenilworth has air conditioning (Harry C. Higgins Air Conditioning Co.) In her book, Ann Armbruster says the Martinique was the first fully air conditioned hotel but when I spoke to her, she could not recall her source. In her study on North Beach, Carolyn Klepser says the Martinique was first but when I asked her for her source, she said she got it from Armbruster's book. I may have to play Solomon on this one. HowardK Sunday, August 08, 2004 America Online: HKMiami