Vintage Postcard – Rest-A-Nite Motel

Rest-A-Nite Motel
Lake Wales, Fla.
Ph. 24874
State Road 17 – U.S. Hwy. 27
22 individual units on private sandy beach on beautiful Lake of the Hills. Swimming, boating, fishing, picnic area amid Florida’s finest attractions.
Harry and Nancy Fowler
Owners-Managers

Marlin. T. Griffin, Dunedin, Fla.
Tropicolor by Marlin T. Griffin 8209

This lovely vintage postcard has the AAA and Recommended by Duncan Hines Lodging for a Night logos. It has not been sent. This flikr account has a 1948 receipt from the RESTANITE here. There are other postcards featuring this place online with slightly different information:

RESTANITE RESORT MOTEL
Scenic Drive U.S. 27-A North
Lake Wales, Florida   Phone 3-5871
Villa efficiencies, Air conditioning, T.V. Private beach, swimming, boating, fishing, putting green, playground, shuffleboard.
“Relax in the midst of Florida orange groves,
Between Bok Tower and Cypress Gardens”

There’s a weird reocities.com project for which you can donate bitcoins (I swear, someday someone will read that and think WTF, is that even a sentence?) here that has some history of the Lake of the Hills area. It seems to be a tour, and lists the “Self House” as belonging to Mr. Self from the Restanite.

Anyhow, the address is unspecific. I can’t find a Lake of the Hills. I can find Bok Tower. Is Rest-A-Nite still around? Unlikely.