Shore Crest
Shore Crest / Royal Palm 1545 Collins Ave
Art Deco District, Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA, America
The Royal Palm was built in 1939 as a four-story resort and expanded to seven stories two years later.
During World War II in February 1942, enlisted men and officer candidates began to arrive in Miami Beach for military training. Resort hotels became mess halls, bachelor officers’ quarters and crowded army barracks over the course of the following years. Ultimately, 300 hotels and apartment buildings became military facilities in service to nearly one half million US Army trainees during the war, with such notables as Clark Gable, Hank Greenberg, and Franklin Roosevelt, Jr. included in their numbers.
Photo Matthew Harris
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