The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-12-06
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ter season.
Beyond the offices, telephone
exchange and telegraph desk a
wide corridor leads to the dining
hall at the left and the baggage
room at the right. The dining
room is 100 feet long and 68 wide.
Guests enter the dining loggias
at either side through French
doors half concealed by immense
fish-tail palms. The loggias are
enclosed with glass. The dining
room ceiling is panelled with
black cypress stained silver gray.
A cocktail lounge adjoins.
Kitchen Floor Raised
A short flight of stairs gives en-
trance to. the kitchen, the floor
of which is raised to gain height
for the basement pumproom.
There the machinery is operated
which forces water from the els
terms to tanks in the top of the
hotel under the Spanish-tiled
pitched roof. Pressure is thus Sc
cured to supply the requirements
of the hosiery and its ITS rooms.
The cistern water is used for all
hotel purposes except flushing of
the toilets. Water from driven
wells services that requirement
and is pumped to another battery
of attic tanks. Soft coal gener-
ates steam in the boilers that han
die the pump equipment.
. The kitchen is So by SO feet in
side measurements with two an
nexes used respectively as bake
shop and butcher shop. Next to
the boiler room a part of the
basement is used for refrigera-
ton, foodstuff storage and the re-
ception of commodities. There is
a dining room for the hotel help
and a small kitchen serving it
The kitchens are equipped in a
thoroughly up-to-date manner
and can take care of capacity
house and it's staff.
All Comforts For Guests
Not one item that would en-
nance the comfort of the guests
was omitted from Casa Marina
Lobby and dining room furniture
was made especially for the Flor
ida East Coast Hotel Company
following the period design. Bath
room facilities were of the best
obtainable when the hostelry was
| erected.
Thirty-Seven rooms above the
kitchen wings are devoted to the
hotel officers and employees
There are several exclusive suites
over the main dining room
There in another day eminent
men and women from all over the
world have made temporary
homes to revel in Cayo Hueso's
incompatible climate, her sun.
rises and sunsets, her fishing anc
her hospitality.
THE Great" Guested There
Presidents, presidents elect
governors, senators, congressman
cabinet members and their fami
lies have enjoyed the comforts af.
forded by Casa Marina through
the years before the second Worlc
war.
From the porches and windows
of the hotel charming vistas de
light the eye. The exquisite
lawns of Bermuda grass-its root;
are bought by the yard at hard
ware stores-which spread in al
| directions from the building, en-
| thrall every visitor
! The hotel grounds are approx
mately rectangular with a front
age of 1900 feet on the open At
lantic-over there is SPAIN;
length of $40 feet on Seminole
street, which somewhat parallels
the ocean, and $40 feet on Reyn
olds street, which ends at thu
ocean.
Tropical Splendor
Coconut palms stand at indol
ent angles on the lawns. A min
iature golf course invites the Wis
itor beside the east wing, and al
obstacle course in front of The
main building from whose waite