1675-28 Flamingo Hotel •
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Ni' thataro5'er,landmark is
abrut t•disappear tLe anecdote has
her revivedhat a liieo`"ossner of
the�F'lam '
mgn Inte.l-�was Joseph Lin-
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coin who lit- in P,rizena and nev-
er sae• the place . . , fixtures and
furnishings ore beta;sold now,with
the dismantling of the Flamingo,
built in the 1920s,soon to follnw be-
fore a huge apartment house can
rice in its place.,,
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Sound Of Progress .
• Harsh At Flamingo.
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By JOE VECCHIONE lags as movers stripped the In its heyday, the Flamingo
A new sound was heard today was a symbol of the errtrg_nce
across the lush,rolling grounds o[Miami Beach as the nation's
and;n the stately corridors-of Pies of rubble replaced the winter playl;round.
-:he Flamingo Hotel. , hotel s rrottale ctbny that once
housed the nation's most glia•. The Flamingo was Jlt in
The sound was progress But hang vacation clientele. •
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is pioneer tdevelopern Carl Furniture Removed To Be.Sold
for many'who member the G. Fisher. Located near what
splendor of tl hoteY-a Gone,too,were the luxurious is now the western end of Lin- - -
mingo's coin Road, the original hotel During World Ba- II the posted the American planta
landmark°n"M Bead'and yachts that lined the Fla
a chapter in the arca'.history bay.aide duclea in former years.• had 145 rooms- • Flamingo, like many other .recent Years, as 'estaurants
a the terns was alsoeharsh.. And the water of the large • - ' Beach hotels,was pressed into and night spots blossomed on
_ R Later,os rooms were added, service by the military, the Beach.some other modern
The Flamingo is being tarn swimming pool,where Florence and it guest cottages; ranginginnovations never found their
down to make way for:apart- Chadwick taught her :Dort to in-size from three to Live bed. With the end of the war the
- millionaires, way into the hotel.
mea buildings. _ es,ray deep and still• rooms,were built on the sprawl- Forningo returned to mufti and
TIM yy o, Hotet ing'yrounda. was completely refurbished at Because it vas open pnly
Hage cranes labored saintly Prof • - a cost of$1'0,000. to 1946 the from December through"Apnfl,
on the palm-lined Orrice., erly.was sold lout August to During muck of its first 20 hotel was sold to a Cleveland the Flamingo—and its pa-
amid ase coming and gotsg W a New York development -years the Flamingo was ae. firm, Gordon Makin and Co.. Irons—did without the"me:,
men. The once s and the hostslavisof Homs firmEmiMorton,Omaran
vroom. claimed the leading hotel I. headed by the late Joseph C. ressary" convenience d aIrtruc
P the areaand was the minter Lincoln
• - the company acre,said work' address.-of.•sunt-notables as - conditioning.
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Despite the mushrooming of � When the new owners took
on the first of some 1,200 former President Herbst
apartment units will begin In Nether, aotomollre tycoon lhr Beach's Hotel Row the over Id August they announced
February. Wetter Chrysler and When• Flamingocontinued to draw that there were no immediate
a substantial, faithful follow- plans for renovating the prop-
---- log among the "old guard" erty. • • -
Picture! By Bob Bailey •
vacation population. '
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But today the demolition
Although the Flamingo incur-' crews were at'work.
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