The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-01
LET'S GET BUSY.

Much has been said and written of
Pensacola as a summer resort, but SO
far, most of the efforts towards this
end have been more or less tentative.
1t is a fact, which is difficult to under
stand, that the people of Pensacola do
| not seem to realize the many oppor-
tunities afforded here for diversion. not
only in the summer months, but all the
year round.
Pensacola today probably affords
greater natural opportunity than any
other city in the state, IL not in the
entire country, for all the year round
out Of door pleasures. There are a
number OF contributive reason for
this, chief of which, of course, are
climatic conditions and geographical
lloca ton.
The season here is open at all times,
| yet in the winter months is more
bracing than that Of the cities farther
south of us, and much preferred by
many who find the climate at the
far south too facilitating. The sum-
mer climate of Pensacola is unsur-
passed, and the home people thorough
| ly enjoy it's pleasures. But the out
side world, so far, is but slightly ac-
uuainted with them.
4 But IL HcISdCOld Is cV0Iy 10 DS d
great summer resort, we have two tasks
before us. of no mean proportions. One
| is to let the world know what we have.
sorts more accessible.
| In a communication to a ST. Louis
paper, a writer who had visited Pen
sacola spoke highly of it's many claims
/ to distinction and progress, but
49, 60 OF hot for
the individual to make a. trip to the
Gulf beach. In a way, this is true.
And it will continue to be true, until
| there is resort of permanent char
acter established on the beach, and a
regular schedule established both by
land and water.
To those who have studied this prob
| lem for any length of time, and who
have familiarized themselves with the
possibilities of a Gulf Beach Resort
land Hotel, it is almost inconceivable
that the Gulf Beach Highway should
have been allowed to languish by the
men directly responsible for the inn
provement of good roads in this sec
ton The completion of this road and
the construction of the Pensacola Flo
maton Road would bring thousands of
visitors from Georgia and Alabama to
this coast every summer, provided that
suitable arrangements were made for
their entertainment after their arrival.
Let US finish these two important
links in the state highway system;
| let us build a Gulf Beach Hotel and
establish a resort, with both water and
land connection with the city, SO that
the people who come to Pensacola will
have an opportunity for enjoying the
pleasures of the surf after they get
| here.
| When we have done these thing, let
us advertise Pensacola as the great
all the -year-round resort that it
should and will be, if the people will
only work towards that end. Such a
movement, If carried out to its legiti-
mate conclusion, would mean increased
business for Pensacola, besides afford
| ing a wonderful recreation centre for
the people of nearby cities, who would
find such an outing cheaper and more
delightful in every way, than the visits
to hot, inland cities, whose chief claims
as resorts are those set forth on at
| tractively printed folders-claims
which never materialize.
Let us work then, steadily, deter
minedly. until we have established on
the Gulf Beach a great resort centre,
with roads of Florida and Alabama
making easy connection with the Gulf
Beach Highway which is yet destined
to become famous as a great automo-
bile highway terminal.