Vintage Postcard – Nilsson’s Dorsett Motel

Nilsson’s Dorsett Motel
7422 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami 38, Fla.

100% Air Conditioned and Heated — Television in all Rooms — Kitchenette Apts. — Motel Rooms and Apartments — Minutes to Beaches, Fishing, Boating, Shopping, Race Tracks and Sightseeing Tours. Phone FL 1-9432.

Pub. by Acme Photo, Miami, Fla.
Anscochrome by Sal Maugeri
C–14657

This lovely vintage postcard has both the AAA and American Express logos. It was mailed using a grey five cent Washington stamp from Miami February 13, 1963 to Mrs. Eva M. Harner, Littletown [unintelligible] R.D.E. It reads:

Feb. 12
Hi.
Staying here tonight had to stop driving today we got into an awful storm, going to Sarasota tomorrow.
Lloyd – Kathryn

Here’s the old Dorsett Motel today (Google Street View):

It is listed as being built in 1952 and is a contributing structure to the MiMo District as part of the Historic Preservation Designation Report.

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