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CRESCENT COURT
1721 N. Mills St.- on route 17-192
Orlando, Florida
32 Rooms - Air Conditioned _ Electric Heat _ Wall-to-Wall Carpets _ Room Phones
Free Television - Swimming Pool
Phone GArden 2-4482
postmarked February 4, 1960.
Here since last Thursday. Rain most of the time.
Love, Florence
Mrs. Herbert Bruce
98 Willow Road
Nahant, Mass.
This motel, one of many dotting U.S. 17-92 and other major highways through Orlando, provided a place for weary travelers driving on the pre-Interstate routes through Florida. (You can find many still in existence on the Orange Blossom Trail, such as the Parliament House.) Most of these motels had similar construction- a long building divided into small rooms with a courtyard and perhaps a pool out front. Crescent Court was torn down in the 1990's to make room for the Orlando Immunology Center.
Nahent, Massachusetts is a small town of about 3,000 people in the northern part of the state. The hues at 98 Willow Ave sits on Dorothy Cove, an inlet of Massachusetts Bay. Herbert Bruce was listed in the "Who's Who on the Northern Shore of Massachusetts Bay- 1916." It looks as if Herbert Bruce's wife was named Mildred Bruce, and they had at least one son, Herbert, Jr. who granted the property to someone in 1997. Mildred was listed as deceased. What a friend of a fairly prominent family in Massachusetts was doing in an Orlando motel for an entire week is unknown. At least she had free television.
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