The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 28, 1953, Page 4

’ AL MILLS BUYS KEYS , 182 Acres On Cudjoe Developing; Isle Of Pines Hotel Santa Fe And Black Sand Beach Purchased By SUSAN McAVOY Real Estate Editor Al Mills, Key West realtor, has bought 182 acres on Cudjoe Key for $54,870, two and one half miles of black gand beach on the Isle of Pines, Cuba and the historic | old Santa Fe hotel on that Island, it was learned today. Mills filed a deed for the Keys County Realty Market Stull Very Active Bay-Bottom Is Bought By Adams, Thompsons; Land | = |at Seaside, Key Largo. the Key, s — | $2,000 repairs to frame barracks | building a $1,000 frame shed |ing a frame store at a cost of | Seaside Properties, Inc. is; F. W. is ~a | building a $3,000 CBS house and | $5500 house at Sunset Point, : | two $6,000 houses on Key Largo. | Largo. ie Rey | Marathon Seaford Inc. is build-}|_ Leo A, Gauthier is building a $1,000 porch on upper Materum- Marathon Lumber company is (Continued on Page. Nime)- | Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN purchase in the courthouse last week. He bought one third in- terest in the Cudjoe property from Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gold- smith, and Mrs. William Warren; one half interest was bought for $26,100 from Mr. and Mrs. Char- les Henry Wardlow, and one fifth interest was bought by Mills from | Mrs. Lenor X. Allen’s estate. Mills will be selling off acreage lots in the near future. He will file his plat of the new develop- ment as soon as the survey is completed. The company develop- ing the property, known as Cud- joe Realty, is headed by Mills. While this purchase was in the works, Mills looked ahead to the days when even the Keys are overcrowded and bought up the valuable black sand beach strip for an undisclosed price. This magnificent sweep of sand on the Caribbean is on the North! coast of Isle of Pines, Until re- cently there was only one estate j on the whole four mile stretch. Now Miamians and Islanders are putting up their homes on Bibya- gua, as the beach is known on the Island, Some 12 miles out from Nue- va Gerona, the only town on the Island, is Santa Fe, where Mills has just bought the 50 room hotel, formerly known as | By Bishop Hurley the Santa Rita. He has also bouth the mineral springs |_J0SePh P. Hurley as Bishop of which led to the original fame |St- Augustine, Fla. and his sue- of the hotel and the town of |cessors in office have bought for | } Santa Fe. ocean, the springs will be made | available for swimming by the, building of a 70 foot by 35 swim- | ming pool, using springs waters. The pool will be of marble, hewn from the magnificent marble | f mountains of the Isiand. The old hotel is being com- pletely renovated, remodelled and | $13,500, 15 acres Though Santa Fe is not on the Key from Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sutcliffe. on Plantation The property has approximate- y 800 feet frontage on U. S. Highway No, 1. The deed was filed in the of- | ice of County Clerk Earl Adams. | Other deeds of interest filed | last week include the purchase | for $4,000 by A. Maitland Ad- 3 THE TRIPLE PLAY consists of Baseball Batting ‘Range on Truman Avenue near Simonton, and refurnished by Mills. An Ameri- ams, Mrs. Norberg Thompson, ean chef has already replaced; john N. Thompson and Marie the Cuban cook who presided} joan Knight of 20 acres of bay over the kitchen when I stayed) pottom off Boot Key Harbor, there back in December, 1950.| Key Vaca from the I. J. bond. : The slightly antiquated plumbing) wr. and Mrs. A. R. Hollenbeck is being ripped out for new, have sold to.Mr. and Mrs. John modern bathrooms, Mills said, Rp Cay. €1 000 and the dark lobby will be brigh- Bars for $1,000 land on the tened. A bar and cocktail lounge| the pee Jay Con i i h y Corporation and will be another feature of the Te- | the Hillary corporation have sold furnished Santa Fe. |to Mr. and Mrs, Ray E. Dodge The hotel is tour miles from for 13.090, 11 Jots in North qarare Te ie Laer |Marathdh Shores subdivision. The y c : '| Same corporation has sold to cruisers ro ae are avail- | Dodge Incorporated, a California able for fis! aiag Tht h |corporation having offices in Mia- oe sey oe sta A Poe cai | mi, five other lots in North Mara- time that Mayor Vincent Impel-| ‘Yr ‘ang aire Gan. Pease literri of New York City and his | pave sold for $7,500 to C. E. Pease friends Sylvio Gargulio of the Is- land have bought thousands of, acres on the virgin South coast of the Island. This undeveloped stretch of white sand beach, pro vides some of the finest off shore fishing in this part of the world. It is, however, completely inac- cessible by land at this time. ROBERTS OFFICE SUPPLIES & EQUIPMENT 126 Duval Street Phone 2-5634 Royal Typewriters Portables and Standards | There are four main kinds of camellike hoffed animals in SALES ~- SERVICE South America; llamas, aplacas, guanacos and vicunas. The llama RENTALS and alpacas are domesticated and the others run wild. VENETIAN BL The MAXWELL COMPANY @ Built to Fit Any Size Window! *Aluminum Slats Easily Removable! "New Beauty ™ ROLLAcHEAD. a lot in Key West. miniature golf, archery and snack bar. The amusement center opens tonight. David Heilweil, own- er of the New York-Key West Amusement. corporation is manager and owner of The Triple Play, —Citizen Staff Photo, Wet ag Coe Keys Building Boom Reflected In Quantity, Quality Of Permits City Building Permits Slow Film Theater In Marathon; Water Stations Boost Sadowski and Sons have sold for $1,000 to Mr, and Mrs. Floyd Lamb, Marathon, Little Venice subdivision in Mara- thon. four lots of Mr. and Mrs. tvar Axelson have sold for $900 to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Lukasik of Miami, 40 acres on the main- land above the Everglades Na- tional Park. The sellers reserve expressly for themselves and their heirs an undivided half interest in and to all the oil, gas, and other minerals in, on and under the above described fands, subject to an oil, and mineral lease given--by the Grantors to Humble Oil and Re- fining company. D. A. McDougal, father-in-law of Axelson and his wife Myrtle, have sold to Amelia Vogelzang and Walter Haessner of Miami, for $400, 40 acres of his vast holdings on the mainland north of the Everglades Park, reserv- ing half interest in the oil, gas and mineral rights and subject to an oif, gas and mineral to the Sun Oil Co. of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Flem- jing, Jr. have sold for $1,600 to |Mr. and Mrs. Estcll B. Paulson jof Miami, lot 23, of Pirates Cove, jas, During Month Of March Here Many Minor Jobs eon : cheson, 1326 Grinnell Street, Of Repairs And $1,300, new roof to residence; Additions But hetero ao Carey a Eaton * di lew! Few New Buil Frank Clayton, corner of Casa CBS Construction company is|Marina Court and White Street, building two $8,000 houses and| $8,000, build CBS residence; Em- one $9,000 house, according to| ory Curry, 1510 Seminary Street, permits issued last month by|$50, paint house; Delio Cobo, 413 Building Inspector Ray Knopp. |Fleming Street, $80, minor re- The two $8,000 CBS houses are | Pairs to office; Sam Collins, 2919 going up at 1610 and 1618 South | Seidenberg Avenue, $150, build Street. The $9,000 house is going fence; Zion Primitive Baptist up at 1613 Rose Street, Church, 822 Thomas Street, $90, Paul Sher is building a $7,000| build garage; Stutz Hotel, 410 addition to his store at 606 Duval | Fleming Street, $1,500, enclosing Street. porch, Other permits issued in March} Truman Elementary School, at City Hall were as follows: Claude Gandolfo, 117 Ann Street, $2,500 addition to home; Charles Wells, Texaco Service station, corner of Duval and Tru- man, $300, for building a con- crete slab; Lina Orta, 1026 White corner of White and Truman, $267, repairs to rooff T. J. Crutchfield, 829 Terry Lane, $100, paint house; Max Cohen, Roosevelt Boulevard and First Street, $600, build screened back and garbage shed; Louise porch Street, $100, remove old fence|Denham, 1023-25-27-29 Catherine and rebuild; Col. O. D. Parmer, | Street, $1,000 minor repairs to 1100 South Street, $2,000, remod-; houses; J.B. Moss, 315 Virginia eling and replacing floors; Cath-| Street, $2,500, general repairs to erine Langamann, 626 Elizabeth|house; . Millard Burchell, 1017 Street, $100, tear down old fence} Windsor Lane, $200, add room to Precision - made to fit your windows perfectly ... choose from decorator inspired colors ... either matching er contrasting tapes. PHONE US FOR FREE ESTIMATE a subdivision on Key Largo. |. Mr. and Mrs, James F. Starl- jing and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. m| Braddy have sold for $5,000 to |Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Pang- }burn of Marathon, a lot in South {Marathon Shores subdivision. | The Toppinos and _ Bersteins have sold to CBS construction co. ! |a“Key West lot for $1,500. CBS; | Construction has sold a lot, the Same one, for the same price to! Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd F. Bell of and replace with new. house; Robert Evans, 711 Petron- Permits Volume The building boom on the | Keys is reflected in the large | number of permits and their! size issued in February and | March by County Building | Inspector Donald Cormack. | The largest taken out by permit the was Florida for $143,000 to build pump-/ ing stations and ground storage tanks, at Tavernjery} Marathon and Islamorada. Largest single private permit is the mew $20,784 Marathon Theater. Herbert Wood builder took out the permit. The thea- ter will seat 500 persons. T Sadowski and Son took out a | $32,000 permit for eight CBS Cottages in Little Venice sub- division, Marathon. State Rep. Bernie C. Papy is building: @ $10,000 house at Sugarloaf Key. Another build- ing permit for $10,000 was is- sued to A. Shurtz who is putting up a house at Guifview on Pig R. J. Stevenson, 2404 Patterson | ia Street, $100, repairing porch;| Coppitt Key. Avenue, Edwards, 709 Thomas Street, $60, build fence; Henry Ray Canfield, | Packer Street, $4,000, build CBS | 519 Frances Street, $150, extend garage four feet wider; George Faraldo, 2214 Seidenberg Ave-| $500, building additional room to |for $6,000 on nue, $100, erect picket fence; C. $100, concrete slab/Mrs. Marjorie Stevens, 525 Caro-| ' " painting, minor repairs; James)line Street, $1,400, general re-/Key has taken a $10,000 permit Caridad Santana, 1019 pairs; residence. J. R. Fleitas, 511 United Street, house; Gold Coast Clothing, 423 Duval, $2,000 install air condi- B. R. Brothers on Little |for a frame hous: J. J. Hines ,CBS house at {Tuttle is building Dr s. | M. and M is building an $8.00 on Duval Street and Green | tioning unit; Howard Wilson, 701 at Seaside, Key L. The Maxwell Company 909 Fleming St. 1606 South Street Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Ames jhave sold to ‘Frances F. Edwards, ‘for $2,400 a lot on Center Street near Trumen Avenue The Knowles family have | sold to Mr. and Mrs. Jose Nor- Key West Floor Covering Co. - ANNOUNCES A Complete Stock of KEN FLEX VINYL TILE Also Kentile and Armstrong Asphalt. Rubber and Cork Tile Formica and Plastic Wall Tile INSTALL IT YOURSELF or Expert Guaranteed Installation DIAL 2-2512 For Free Estimate Key West Floor Coverinn Co. 13? DUVAL STREET cisa, of 819 Elizabeth Street for $1800 a lot on Elizabeth Street. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Key have sold for $1,600 to Fred- erick Key of Key West, five lots im Kinercha subdivision of Big Joseph N. Wat- es to Mr. and Mrs. A. Gardner of 1206 South a lot in Torch Wood, a subdivision on Mrs. Mayme De Feo has sold te Leonte Valladares, 615 Ange- la Street, for $10,000 property Streets, running southeast te | Washington Street, $2,000, build Charles Street then te New | garage to house; James Edwards, Street, together with build (709 Thomas Street, $100, con- ings and structures and equip» crete porch to residence; Russell pessial heat mae Roberts, 508 Louisa Street, $500, orter- “Russell, Ine. have | puiig CBS ; Emma Ayaya sold for $2,200 to Mr. and Mrs. a a gue | Williams E. Cates a lot in Key West. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Etley M. Hardy and Mr. and Mrs. Byrea K. | Waits have sold for $1,200 -five | acres on Big Key to Reu- jben S. Payne of Miami. The Paynes in turn have sold one half of the acreage te the Hardy's for $600. Little Torch Key. | lestatés on Keys to Mr. and Mrs. | Richard Rae also of Dearbora. 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