1674-7 Jacobs Family KEYWORDS: OBITUARY
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mh MILTON JACOBS 02/11/1990
THE MIAMI HERALD
Copyright (c) 1990, The Miami Herald
DATE: Sunday, February 11, 1990 EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: 4B LENGTH: 38 lines
SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: SEAN ROWE Herald Staff Writer
MEMO: DEATHS
MILTON JACOBS
BUILT TWO HOTELS
ON MIAMI BEACH
Services will be held today for Milton Jacobs, a Miami Beach hotelier in
the 1930s and '40s who died Wednesday in Boca Raton. He was 84.
Mr. Jacobs built the Alamac Hotel at 1400 Ocean Dr. after moving to Miami
Beach from New Jersey in 1932. Seven years later, he sold the Alamac, now an
apartment building, and built the Lord Tarleton Hotel at 4041 Collins Ave.
During the war years, the building, now called the Crown Hotel, was taken over
by the U.S. government and used to billet soldiers, including movie star Clark
Gable, said Mr. Jacobs' brother Bob, of Miami Beach, who worked with him in
the hotel business.
Mr. Jacobs also owned the Edgemere House and Alamac hotels in Lake
Hapatcong, N.J., and the Lake Tarleton Club in Pike, N.H., a hunting lodge he
expanded and sold in 1969.
Before he semi-retired, Mr. Jacobs worked at the Fontainebleau Hilton and
Diplomat hotels. "His specialty was in the back of the house -- the food and
the restaurants, " said his son Sandy. "His only hobby that I know of was his
work. His work and his family were his top priorities. "
Born in 1905 in Yonkers, N.Y., Mr. Jacobs was one of nine brothers and
sisters. He was a member of Temple Beth Sholom on Miami Beach and Temple Beth
El in Boca Raton. He moved to Boca Raton in 1973, and worked as a consultant
to the Boca Teeca Country Club there.
In addition to his son and brother, Mr. Jacobs is survived by his wife
of 52 years, Ethel Feldman Jacobs, daughters Judy Jacobs and Susan Green and
three grandchildren.
Services will be held today at Levine Chapel, 470 Harvard St., Brookline,
Mass. The family requests that donations be made to the Parkinson Foundation.
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