The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 3, 1954, Page 6

Work On $85,000 Motel Will Begin This Month Owner Of Blue Marlin Motel Plans Lavish New Two-Story Structure THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, July 3, 1954, back up the saw and then either shut off the motor or start to |cut again. | DON’T... .permit the cable 7 | 4 j|to lie in grease or oil, as they 3 { i the rubb t You've all heard the gag about the waiter who made | FLEC. RIC | OO! jquickly ruin the rubber protec |tion . ‘ so much money in tips that he was building his second | ne Beet > neve : ge ee apartment building? oe : ; I ‘ : : | | Page 6 By DENIS SNEIGR the wing nuts securely after Jacob Dietsch isn’t a waiter anymore, but he is , building his second motel. © He sat in the office of his Blue Marlin Motel, 1320} Simonton Street, yesterday afternoon and described Key West’s newest motel, on which work will begin within two weeks, The new two-story motel will be a dream job, Dietsch says, with $85,000 being spent on the building and another $20,000 going for furnishings and landscap- ing. Ald To Ladies According to Dietsch, the new motel will have one little room that no other motel in town has. This room won’t be very large and it won’t be fancily furnished ‘but will be important to women. The room will contain an electric washing machine. Dietsch pointed to the 100-by-200 foot plot that adjoins the Blue Mar- lin. “That’s where the new building will be,” he said. “It will be a two-story building with a balcony and a sun deck on the roof.” There will be 20 units in the building—nine ‘motel rooms and 11 efficiency apartments. Air Conditioned All the units will be air condi- The 20 new units; plus the pres- ent 14 motel rooms in the Blue Marlin, will give Dietsch a total of % units. When finished, the name will be the Blue Marlin Motel and Apart- ments. There will be a TV outlet in each Joe’s Blacksmith Shop Outside Welding - Machine Works “IF IT’S METAL—WE FIX IT” Gasoline and Oj] Tanks Repaired PHONE 2-5658 614 Front Street ROBERTS Office Equipment 126 Duval Street Phone 2-5634 Royal Typewriters Portables and S’andards SALES - SERVICE RENTALS TTT TTT ‘VENETIAN BLINDS » Seantum, STAY BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE THEY STAY Clean Our blinds custom made with new FLEXALUM spring tempered slats and yiny! plastic tape .-. . actually shed dust .:. wipeclean with ‘8 flick of a cloth, Won't fade. Keep their lovely newness for ‘years and years. See them in the latest decorator colors. Key West Venetian Blind Co. 8. R. SILBERMAN—Owner Awnings - Jalousies Windows - Doors Lawn and Patio Furniture of the new units with a master antenna on the roof. Each unit also will be wired for a private telephone connection. The concrete-block and stucco building was designed by Norman Giller, Miami Beach and Key West architect, and is being built by the CBS Construction Company. The motel will have terrazzo floors throughout. 5 Dietsch plans to open the new motel about Dec. 1, and he is bring- ing in Alfred Schlesinger, of Los Angeles, an experienced hotel man, to manage it. Tropical Landscaping The landscaping alone will cost Dietsch a bundle. “Tt will be like a tropical gard- en,” he said. Dietsch, who has lived in Key West 17 years and has been in hotel business for 40 years, bought the land in 1943. It has been a long time since Dietsch worked as a waiter—his last such job was in 1938 and 1939 as assistant head waiter at the Casa Marina—but. he recalls the immediate pre-World War I pe- riod in New York City when cab- arets were reaching their peak. This was from 1911 to 1914. It was then that he worked at such famous restaurants, hotels | and ¢abarets as Reisenweber’s, Jack’s, Churchill’s, Shanley’s, Rec- tor’s, Healy’s Golden Glades, the old Knickerbocker Hotel at 42nd Street and Broadway and the Her- mitage Hotel near 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. . Knows Celebrities It was at the Hermitage that he knew such Broadway stars as the late Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson. Another celebrity that Dietsch knows well is Ernest Hemingway. “When I was working at the Casa Marina in 1938.and 1939,” Dietsch says, “I also catered for Hemingway at his home here.” It was during that period that| Dietsch had a chance to buy the | Property at 805-811 Simonton Street. “I didn’t know anything about real estate,” Dietsch said, “so I thought I'd ask Hemingway about the buy.” He recalls that Hemingway told | him: “I don’t know anything about | real estate, either, but I like Key West and my friends like Key West.” Becomes a Key Wester “That was good enough for me,” Dietsch said, so I bought the pro- | perty in 1939.” | And he bought it just in time, too. Along came World War II and the boom in the Navy Yard here. There were a few little houses on houses and sold them and built a dormitory for Navy Yard construc- tion workers. He kept the property until 1945 |Key West had a great future as the land then. Dietsch moved the} a tourist center. = a ei NEW STORE ON DUVAL STREET—The Key West Venetian Blind Company has recently moved to this fine new building at 716 Duval Street. Permit To Build $9,000 Home Is Issued By City City building permits issued this | week mostly were for minor jobs. | The largest was issued to Char- les G. Hall for a $9,000 CBS home | at 2508 Seidenburg. Other permits were: F. J. Miller, 418 Fron‘, repairs, | $200. Willie Saunders, 1701 Von Phis- ter, fence, $200. Allen Shepherd, 1120 Von Phis- ter, repairs, $500. Mrs. Clara Valdez, 728 United, repairs, $100. H..S. Haskins, 826 Waddell, re- pairs, $100. L. Torrado, 2329 Fogarty, build cottage in rear, $600. J. McManus, 1013 Grinnell, fence, $500. J. Roberts, “612 Angela, fence, $225. E. D. Friehaus, Porch, $500. L. Dion, 825 Duval, pour slab and install gas pumps, $2,000. J. G. Roberts, Jr., 319 Catherine, repairs, $250. 1122 Ashby, In Tonkin, one of the states in| Indochina, 60 per cent of the farm- ers own less than an acre of land. when he sold it, believing that That’s why he built the Blue Marlin seven years ago. “Now I’m working on my second motel,” he grinned. By Our Television Sets Are To See Us At | Poinciana Tele | Commercial Center, Poinciana TELEPHONE 2-5947 or 2-8667 ‘716 Duval Street Phone 25531 A Quick Pick-Me-Up For Video Vitality We'll be happy (and prompt) to pick up and deliver your ailing television set. And when we re. will be as good as new, due to the skill and know-how of our TV experts. We're in the Selling Line, Too, CARRYING AN EXCELLENT REPRESENTATIVE STOCK OF RCA, ZENITH and MOTOROLA Products Free Estimates, Cheerfully Given ... 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