1957 King & Prince Hotel St. Simons Island Geogia Article Airport Picture Photo

Description: 1957 King & Prince Hotel St. Simons Island Geogia Article Airplane Picture Photo Page SizePlease see picture #2 Subject: King & Prince Hotel St. Simons Island Geogia Article Year: 1957 Original Print Condition: Good - Please see pictures for actual item and condition being sold. Thanks! These ads and pictures have been removed from 1950's magazines or books..... and are being sold for collectors, model builders, aviation collectors, research, study, students and owners of aircraftt. Sold as pictured show! Please rememember, these Articles Are Extrmely Old & Rare...and may have some border discoloration, small edge chips, page discoloration..... Shipped Flat with cardboard in a Flat Envelope to insure condition! We do offer Combined Shipping On Multiple Items Purchased. Thanks for looking! ********************************************************************** about King & Prince Hotel During the first decades of the 20th century, a few affluent people developed a small, yet vibrant cluster of seasonal cottages near the famed lighthouse that sat toward the southern end of St. Simons Island. Within a matter of years, those homes were joined by a group of rudimentary hotels that serviced the increasing number of tourists who travelled to the island by boat. Soon enough, the introduction of the F.J. Torras Causeway in the early 1920s opened the island up to automobile travel for the first time. As such, the rustic seaside village that resided on the island rapidly swelled during the summer with unprecedented numbers from the mainland. A tiny railway system soon appeared that moved guests easily throughout the island, giving rise to various cultural attractions that catered to their exclusive entertainment. Among the most noteworthy real estate developers to arrive on St. Simons Island at the time was an vehicle manufacturer from Michigan named Howard Coffin. Observing the throngs of tourists walking the island, Coffin immediately recognized the area’s potential to host a prosperous resort community. He quickly set about purchasing land across the island, including large portions of a former 19th-century estate known as “Retreat Plantation.” In short order, Coffin created a wealth of new hospitality facilities, as well as several roads that could better transport people. The crown jewel of his empire was the Cloister Resort on Sea Island, which resided just to the north of St. Simons. Hosting clientele directly from St. Simons Island, it soon became the most exclusive place to stay in the Golden Isles. Two entrepreneurs—Morgan T. Wynne and Franklin J. Home—enviously watched Coffin’s various enterprises flourish. In 1935, the men determined to create their own brilliant holiday destination that would rival the Cloister in its prestige. Purchasing a large allotment of land at the end of Arnold Road, they constructed a magnificent Spanish Colonial Revival-style resort hotel that rapidly became the talk of the town. Christened as the “King and Prince Hotel,” it especially developed a reputation for its exciting live entertainment and crazy dance parties. Many of the soirees even occurred outside, where guests were awestruck by the resort’s stunning views of the surrounding landscape. But a calamity struck two years later, when an accident caused many of the King and Prince Hotel to shutter its doors. Only the structure’s spectacular dining room was spared any damage. Undeterred, Wynne and Home committed to reopening their beautiful retreat. In 1939, they subsequently organized a corporation called the “King and Prince Surf Hotel, Inc.,” financed with some $20,000 in capital stock. According to the two, the purpose of this novel organization was to acquire as much of the local tourism industry as possible. In turn, Wynne and Home would use the proceeds from those endeavors to finance the reconstruction of the King and Prince Hotel. It worked wonderfully. They were able to completely refurbish the entire structure in just a matter of months, which gave the resort its current appearance. The formal date that marked the reopening of the resort was July 2, 1941. But with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that December, the United States quickly found itself in the midst of fighting the Second World War. German submarines were soon prowling off the Georgia coastline, hunting for American merchant vessels that had left nearby Brunswick on the mainland. In fact, two ships—the SS Oklahoma (not to be confused with the battleship) and the SS Esso Baton Rouge—were sunk just off the coastline of St. Simons Island. The War Department sent soldiers and sailors to occupy the many resort hotels that proliferated throughout the Golden Isles, in order to help spot those illusive vessels. The United States Navy subsequently used the King and Prince Hotel as a training facility and radar station that helped hunt down the U-Boats. But the navy also invested heavily into improving the infrastructure across the island. Its projects directly impacted the King and Prince Hotel, as well, for it built a seawall near its shoreline and drilled a well to supply the facility with a reservoir of fresh water. Those developments helped the King and Prince Hotel transition back into peacetime once the war had concluded in 1945. But the conflict had an unintended consequence on both the resort and the island as a whole—it had exposed a whole generation of servicemen and women to the area. As such, the veterans who had served on St. Simons Island returned to the King and Prince Hotel throughout the 20th century, transforming the location as one of America’s most exclusive vacation retreats. Morgan T. Wynne eventually became sole owner of the King and Prince Hotel during the 1940s, although he gradually drifted his attention to new projects in the vicinity of Tampa, Florida. Management of the resort fell to an Atlanta-based company called the “Henry Grady Hotel Corporation.” It proceeded to manage the business for the better part of two decades, starting in 1947. It oversaw a series of additional renovations that constructed a swimming pool, boardwalk, and newer venues to allow for even larger dance parties. But by the 1970s, the resort began to decline in popularity. Much of the demise was attributed to the many different owners who had come to own the resort by this point. Eventually, the CMS Bank of America foreclosed on the business and started looking for a new ownership group. Then, in 1980, the bank reached an agreement with Mississippi Management Incorporated to acquire the resort. Spending the next two years thoroughly refurbishing the destination, the business invested millions into restoring the location back to its former glory. Subsequent renovations occurred in the early 2000s, which was certified by the Technical Preservation Services Branch of the National Park Service. The construction work proved to be so effective that the U.S. Department of the Interior even listed the resort on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. More recently, the resort underwent a massive renovation called the “Castle Makeover,” which redeveloped several common areas and added a brand new restaurant called “ECHO.” Now known as the “King and Prince Beach and Golf Resort,” this outstanding historic destination is once again one of the most exclusive places to stay in Georgia! Aircraft Airplane aeroplane plane fixed-wing fuselage article Newspaper magazine book story airliner Seaplane, floatplane prop piston, rotary, jet or electric engines cockpit instrumentsair traffic control Aircraft flight mechanics Airliner Aviation altitude records Maneuvering speed Rotorcraft

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