Vintage Postcard – Pier 66 Hotel

Pier 66 Hotel and Marina
Fort Lauderdale’s luxury Resort on the intracoastal Waterway, 17 stories and 258 deluxe guest rooms crowned by South Florida’s only Sky High Revolving Pier Top Lounge reached by a spectacular glass enclosed exterior elevator. 142 Marina slips.
Drawer 9177-33310 – Phone 305-524-0566 – Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
For reservations from anywhere in the U.S. (except Florida) call toll free 1-800-327-3796
Atlantic Printing – Fort Lauderdale, Florida

This lovely card was mailed from Fort Lauderdale in January of 1980 using a ten cent People’s Right to Petition for Redress stamp. It was sent to V.A. Medical Center, Voluntary Service (135), West Haven, Conn 06516. It reads:

Jan. 31st. Thurs.
Hi Takes 2 cocktails to make a complete circle. Sight is beautiful. Weather is great. Leaving for West Coast Feb 1st. Did very well on our way down.

Wait! It’s not over! Today you deserve a BONUS CARD!

Famous Pier 66 Motor Hotel and Restaurant in beautiful Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on the Intercoastal Waterway.

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This lovely postcard was mailed in 1979 usint a nine cent Right of People Peaceably to Assemble stamp. It was mailed to Mr & Mrs Everett Roger, Oak Bluffs, Mass 02557 and reads:

Hi The flight was just perfect got here at 4 oclock weather isn’t bad a bit cool but nice the place looks real nice hope you are both well take care
Fannie & Frank

That’s it. No punctuation at all.

I did a quick search…often, I think about how I happened to have this card that used to belong to someone else. Quite often, it’s because the person who received the card has died and it was sold in an estate sale and I picked it up from someone else entirely. Mrs. Everett Roger (Genevieve), passed away in 2011 at age 95. Her obituary is here. She held on to this card 32 years or so.

In 2009, Bob and I made a trip to Florida, and we ate dinner in the revolving restaurant at the top of this Motor Hotel. Here are some views:

Pier 66 is now a Hyatt Regency. Jane’s Bits has a little history here: “Its iconic 17-story tower was constructed in 1964 for nearly $6 million. The project included about 250 rooms and a revolving top floor cocktail lounge; both opened in 1965 but not after some construction problems. The building leaned slightly to one side and was righted with extra fill.”

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