MIAMI BEACH MOTEL ASSOCIATION
APPROVED RESORT MOTELS – 1955
ABBOTT TERRACE MOTEL 8. APTS. — 8116 Abbott Avenue. On attractive grounds, 2 blocks west off Collins Avenue, 200 yards from beach. Housekeeping units and hotel rooms. Air cooling or air conditioning, electric heat and tiled shower or combination baths; TV available.
ANCHOR MOTOR INN — 18970 Collins Avenue. Private beach, small, quiet vacation spot with rooms and apartments.
BALI MOTEL — 16935 Collins Avenue. Directly on the ocean. Very good accommodations in an attractive two-story motel, completely air-conditioned. Tastefully decorated hotel rooms and housekeeping units with telephones, central heat and tiled combination baths; radios and TV available. Coffee shop and cocktail lounge. TV room. Sun deck; swimming pool; private beach.
BLUE GRASS MOTEL — 18325 Collins Avenue. A very good ocean-front motel on attractive grounds. Nicely furnished, centrally heated and air-conditioned rooms and efficiency units have telephones and tiled shower or combination baths; radios and TV available. Air-conditioned coffee shop and cocktail lounge. TV room. Planned entertainment; lawn games. Sun deck; patio; swimming pool; private beach.
CAROUSEL MOTEL — 19051 Collins Avenue. Hotel rooms and apartments, total of 104 — coffee shop, cocktail lounge, swimming pool — 200-foot private beach, telephone in every room, TV lounge, radio and TV available in rooms.
THE CASTAWAYS —16375 Collins Avenue. An excellent motel on very attractive grounds. Beautifully furnished hotel rooms, studio rooms, efficiency apartments and suites are air-conditioned, centrally heated, telephones and tiled combination baths. Coffee shop; cocktail lounge; TV rooms. Sun deck, swimming pool, private beach, playground. Baby sitters available. Member of Quality Courts United, Inc.
CORAL SEAS MOTEL — 16201 Collins Avenue. On the ocean. Very nice accommodations in a completely air-conditioned two-story court. Well-furnished rooms and housekeeping units each with TV, telephone, electric heat and tiled combination bath. TV lounge. Swimming pool; tropical patio; private beach.
DEL RAY MOTEL — 15935 Collins Avenue. Sixty-one air-conditioned hotel rooms and efficiencies, coffee shop, cocktail lounge, with telephones in every room. Private pool and beach, TV.
DESERT INN — 17201 Collins Avenue. Western motif with 154 hotel rooms, studio apartments, fully air-conditioned—Coffee shop, cocktail lounge, swimming pool, children’s pool, TV room and private beach. Planned adult entertainment and supervised children’s activities.
DRYSTON APARTMENTS —220 Sunny Isles Boulevard. Eleven apartments in quiet, refined surroundings.
EL SOMBRERO MOTEL — 17451 Collins Avenue. An excellent, ultramodern two-story motel on ocean front. Centrally air-conditioned — heated rooms and housekeeping units have telephones and tiled combination baths; radios available. Coffee shop, cocktail lounge and outdoor dining terrace; TV lounge with underwater view of swimming pool. Sun deck, patio, private beach, free parking.
FOUNTAINHEAD MOTEL — 16001 Collins Avenue. A very good, unusually well kept two-story motel, directly on ocean. Modern completely air-conditioned hotel rooms and housekeeping apartments with radios, TV, telephones, tiled combination baths, central heat and circulating ice water. Swimming pool and private beach. Adjacent coffee shop and cocktail lounge.
GOLDEN ARROW MOTEL — 15600 Collins Ave. Facing the ocean. Hotel-type rooms and efficiency apartments have electric heat and tiled combination baths; some air-conditioned units. Coffee shop. TV in lobby. Bathing from rooms.
GOLDEN BEACH APARTMENT MOTEL —19475 Collins Avenue. Choice of air-conditioning, 150-foot private beach — TV available, large patio. Twenty-two apartments and hotel rooms.
GREGORY MOTEL —16050 Collins Avenue. Hotel rooms and housekeeping apartments. Some TV, boat dock, private beach, all air-conditioned. Telephones in every unit.
THE HEATHWOOD APTS. 8 MOTEL —18671 Collins Avenue. Large air-conditioned rooms and apartments in a two-story building directly on the ocean. Telephones, central heat and tiled combination baths. TV room. Swimming pool, private beach, sun deck.
HILYARD MANOR — 9541 Collins Avenue. Private beach, air-conditioned. Fifteen modern apartments with telephones and TV in every unit.
LIDO BEACH MOTEL — 17301 Collins Ave. Directly on the ocean. Very nice, completely central air-conditioned hotel rooms and housekeeping units with telephones, TV, radios, electric heat and tiled shower or combination baths, cocktail lounge, coffee shop. TV lounge; sun deck overlooking ocean; swimming pool; private beach.
MALIBU MOTEL — 16100 Collins Avenue. Air-conditioned hotel rooms and housekeeping units facing the ocean. Electric heat and tiled shower or combination baths; radios available. Some family units. Fishing dock; boating.
MANDALAY MOTEL— 16275 Collins Ave. Sixty redecorated rooms with central air conditioning and heating. Telephones in each room, radios, TV lounge, patio, swimming pool and private beach.
MONACO RESORT MOTEL — 17501 Collins Avenue. First-class accommodations in an attractive ocean-front motel. Central heat and air-conditioning, telephones and combination baths; radios and TV available. Coffee shop and cocktail lounge. Patio; playground, swimming pool, private beach. Planned entertainment.
NEPTUNE RESORT MOTEL — 15995 Collins Avenue. Very good centrally heated and air-conditioned hotel rooms and apartments with full kitchens in a two-story motel, directly on the ocean. Attractive furnishings, telephones and tiled combination baths; TV and radios available. Coffee shop; cocktail lounge; TV lounge. Sun deck, lawn games, swimming pool, private beach.
OCEAN PALM MOTEL —15795 Collins Ave. A completely air-conditioned motel with an ocean-front patio. Telephones, electric heat and tiled combination shower baths; 14 efficiency apartments, 29 hotel rooms. Private beach; swimming pool privileges.
OCEAN SHORE MOTEL — 18601 Collins Avenue. Air-conditioned hotel-type and housekeeping units. TV in every room, central heat and tiled shower or combination baths; some radios. Coffee shop. The only one story motel directly on the ocean front. 200 feet of private beach. Free parking at your own door.
PAN AMERICAN MOTEL — 17875 Collins Avenue. An excellent ocean-front motel with attractive air-conditioned studio apartments and hotel rooms. Each has telephone, central heat, sun terrace and tiled combination bath. Dining room, cocktail lounge, TV lounge. Elevator. Valet shop. Underground parking. Playground; lawn games; swimming pool and private beach.
RASCAL HOUSE — 172nd Street and Collins Avenue. NOT A MOTEL—The Rascal House is a first class sandwich-shop style restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper snacks. All kinds of food and drinks in the Bull Pen Lounge.
REVIVA MOTEL AND APARTMENTS — 19090 Collins Avenue. Fresh water swimming pool — nineteen units including eleven apartments and eight hotel rooms. Sun patio with TV, 100-foot private beach.
SANDY SHORES MOTEL — 16251 Collins Avenue. An inviting, ocean-front motel. Well-furnished centrally heated and air-conditioned hotel rooms and housekeeping units have telephones, radios, TV and tiled combination baths. Air-conditioned coffee shop and cocktail lounge. Tropical patio; sun deck; swimming pool; private beach.
SEA BREEZE MOTEL — 16151 Collins Ave. Very attractive air-conditioned hotel rooms and efficiency apartments on the ocean. Telephones, central heat and tiled shower or combination baths. Some TV. Air-conditioned coffee shop. Sun deck; grass patio; private beach; swimming pool; cabana club.
SEA COURT — 16200 Collins Avenue. A modern court with radios, air-conditioning, electric heat and combination baths; some housekeeping units. Beach, boat dock.
SEASCAPE MOTEL & APTS. — 17275 Collins Avenue. Ocean-front hotel rooms and apartments, completely air-conditioned. Large, nicely decorated units have telephones, central heat and tiled shower baths; some TV. Coffee shop and cocktail lounge. Hotel service. Swimming pool and private beach.
STRATTON APARTMENTS — 18925 Collins Avenue. All three-and-a-half room and two bedroom apartments. Private beach and telephones in every unit.
TROPICANA MOTEL — 15645 Collins Ave. Individually controlled heating and air-conditioning in attractive hotel rooms and housekeeping apartments for up to six persons. Telephones; tiled shower or combination baths; radios and TV available. Coffee shop and cocktail lounge. Patio, swimming pool, private beach, cabana.
