1675-15 Flamingo Hotel J M.FOWLER, CHAIRMAN OFTHE BOARD
C_G FOWLER,PRESIDENT - B.BROCKENBROUGH,CASHIER
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J.D.GOUGAR,VICE PRESNT - R.D.RES ER,ASST.CASMIER
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April 30, 1920. �j
Mr. Carl G. Fisher,
Alton Beach,Reality Co. ,
Minna Beach, Florida.
Dear Carl:
I have just had aletter from Mr. Krom and he tells me
that you still have the mural decorations in mind for the Flamingo.
I know you are very much interested in having pictures of the 1
Flamingo in the hotel, and I entirely agree with you that we should
have some, but am of the opinion that we are making a great mistake
if we attempt to put them in as mural decorations. We have employed
W ana.:raker to decorate the important rooms, and their experts as well
as everybody I have talked to, which includes not only Mr. Rubush,
prominent Chicago architects, artists and mural decorators , and they
are all against paintings of this kind. They all say we are not
building the right type of building. In the first place, with opt (t7rLtL
low celings and our Spanish type of architecture, they will be en-
tirely out of place. They say we are making it look like a Dutch
saloon or a museum of natural history in place of a fine hotel lobby.; •
They are all very much in favor of paintings of the Flamingo, but
they should be hung on the walls as paintings. Your friends Messrs.
Beck and LaGorce are fine fellows and mean well and I think by all
means we should have plenty of flamingo, but let us not ruin the
hotel by plastering them all over the walls. I think we had better
take the advice of the decorators and architects and other artists
and mural decorator,, and do the job in the right manner.
In regard to the men' s den in the basement of the hotel,
I though it was definitely decided to have oak walls on which might
be hung pictures such as you sent me or pictures of flamingos. You
will absolutely spoil the room and change its charactory altogether
if you attempt to put mural paintings on the walls.
• I hope you will give this some thought, and don' t let Beck
and LaGorce talk you in to something that will offend the architectural
sense of the majority of your guests. You probably know the class of
people we will have at the Flamingo will know the right thing from the
wrong thing, and we don' t want to make a joke out of our lobby and
public rooms.
I understand that at the present time you are over in the K
Bahamas, and hope you are all having a great time, but I have a picture fl
of you climbing over the rocks to get a glimpse of a flamingo. Kindly
let me hear from you when you get back, and I hope you had a good trip
anyway, f
Yours truly,. ✓ 777''((
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