Vintage Postcard – Seaside Resort Motel – Lauderdale by the Sea

SEASIDE RESORT MOTEL
4605 Ocean Drive
Phone 772-4328   Area Code 305
Lauderdale By The Sea, Florida 33308
Bill & Ellen Olive, Owner-Managers
Modern and spacious efficiencies, apartments and hotel rooms. Air conditioning, heat, T.V. and phones in each room. Sauna bath. One short block to ocean, shopping center, restaurant and recreation center. Short walk to fishing pier.

Tom Neal Color Cards, P.O. Box 13, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33302
142126

This lovely vintage postcard is unused. Doesn’t it have everything, though? Breeze block half wall. The iron railings appear to be quite decorative. And are those ornamental birds on the walls? The color appears to be a very light pink, and as you know, my heart is gone for a pink motel. To go back in time and stay at the Seaside Resort. To sit under that umbrella in the courtyard sectioned off by the breeze block and to hear the wind moving the palm fronds. Maybe with a drink in my hand (one with a little umbrella) and a good book. How heavenly.

Friends, I hope you are as delighted as I am to see this:

Loopnet has the following details: The Washingtonia Resort was constructed in 1953 of concrete block and painted stucco and encompasses a 0.43 acre lot. The property is currently operating as 20 units with six small efficiencies, seven large efficiencies (including the office), four one-bedroom/one-bathroom units, two two-bedroom/one-bathroom units and one three-bedroom/one-bathroom house. Units feature ceramic tile flooring, individual hot water heaters and modern kitchens and bathrooms. Electricity, water, sewer and trash are all currently included in the rent. The property has been recently renovated and many windows have been upgraded to hurricane resistant impact glass.

I wasn’t able to find much on Bill & Ellen Olive, except in a 1953 city directory that had Ellen’s address here at the Seaside Resort Motel. I’m just glad that the place still stands.

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