The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 27, 1954, Page 6

ew ~ Max Cohen To Add 28 Units otel - To Sun And Surf Motel Key West’s newest motel, a two-story buiiding, will be built right on the ocean learned today. near the city beach, it was The work of building a seawall and filling the ocean | bottom land already has started at the Sun and Surf Motel, 508 "South Street. Max Cohen, owner of the Sun and Surf Motel, esti- mated that the entire job — filling, building a seawall, and putting up the new motel — would cost between $75,000 and $80,000. He said the new motel would contain 28 units. Each room will be 12% feet by 19 feet. These di- mensions include the bathroom each of which will include a pow- der room. All the rooms will have heat and Clear Ocean View i The new two-story building will * parallel the east side of Cohen's with the back of the new against the property of the Atlantic Shores Motel at 510 South A arrangement, Cohen said, his 28 new units a clear ocean since the city west of Cohen's 8gce sf 42 motel units. The present tile; Olympic - size «SALES - SERVICE make a driveway leading to the new building on the ocean. With the cabanas removed and the 80-by-200 foot area filled, Co- hen said he would have a parking lot measuring 80-by-325 feet. In addition to filling and build- ing a wall around the new 80 - by - 200 foot ocean bottom area which Cohen bought from the state, he is building a low wall out into the| & Ocean from the western boundary | of his property. : 3 This low wall, Cohen said, will | ©: ee se trap sand in front of his property to form a new neach. Ooncrete % NEW MOTEL SITE—Workmen are busy with filling and building a sea wall to form the site for steps will lead down to the new| the new motel which will be part of the present Sun and Surf. The new addition will be a two- beach, he added. Stevens Remodeled Later, Cohen continued, a long pier will be built out into the ocean from his property. Meanwhile, work was almost fin- ished on the Stevens South Beach Motel. This motel, on the corner of South and Simonton Streets, was the first motel built in Key West, Cohen said. He recalled that the South Beach was put up near the end of World War II. “It is an entirely new building, except for the walls,” Cohen said. He added that new windows, a new roof, new air - conditioning units, new furniture, and a new paint job inside and out had gone| into the South Beach Motel. “TI expect the biggest season Key West ever had,” Cohen said. “E have more reservations right now than I ever had had and I’ve been} j in this business 12 years,” Read The Citizen Classified 4ds For REAL Bargains! BEAUTIFY* YOUR HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS = cs ON ALL PAINTS Monroe Specialty Co. 199: FLAGLER AVE. story structure.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. Business Mirror By Sam Dawson 2-7661 - NEW YORK (?—Living costs,ernment price supports and rising are the easiest for the year so | processing charges allow. But keen far—and nicely below last fall’s|competition among food proces- Call for FR record high point. Don't wait until Abundant harvests get much of sors, distributors and retailers is the best aid the- housewife has REMODELED MOTEL—AIl that’s left to do is the landscaping now that the Stevens South Beach Motel has been completely renovated, even to new furniture. Max Cohen is the owner of the motel which was built near the end of World War IL—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. the basic metals has tended high- | er—with nickle: bouncing up 4% cents a pound just this week. | All of this puts pressure for higher prices on finished goods that consumers buy. Higher labor |costs have the same upward shove. And some consumer goods prices \have advanced this fall, especially }at the factory level. But, in a number of industries, cut-throat competition among manufacturers has forced them to hold prices— even to tut them in some cases, to move goods that tended to back up in their warehouses. Sick Of Living, He Takes Poke At Poicemen NEW YORK, (Said Sisinio | Cruz: “I was despondent. I was} sick of living. I figured if I hit a cop, the cop would shoot and kill) me.” | Cruz, %-year-old mechanic, had } that to say Thursday after police | accused him of: 1. Driving for 15 blocks on the wrong side of Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. 2. Punching photographer Alan Aaronson in the nose after trying to ram his car four times. Aaronson had been trailing Cruz in his car. 3. Punching one cop in the nose, biting another on the thumb and tussling with half a dozen oth policemen, Re After being treated for cuts and bruises, Cruz was booked on charges of assault and dangerous driving. Well-Aged Beer Tastes “Horrible” SANDWICH, England, (#—Eight- teen bottles of beer believed to be about 250 years old have washed ashore here in the past week. Ivor Noel-Hulme, an archaeol- ogist, fixed the approximate age of ‘the brew by examining the old handmade bottles. They were of a type used 2% centuries ago. The beer is believed to have come from an ancient wreck fi- nally broken up by the sea. “People who have tried it,” Noel- Hulme reported, “say it is hor- rible.” City Building Permits Issued Donald Barber, 2102. Staples, floor, $300. | Mr. Koeing, 1425 Waddell, maid's | quarters, $3,000. | M. C. Thompson, 2815 Harris, ad-! dition, $1,000. E. S. Rosam, 3540 Duck, car port, W. Gandolfo, 616 Whitehead, re- pairs, $300. Levi James, 327 Catherine, roof, $100, A. Hernandez, 2304 Harris, resi-| dence, $8,000. Mrs. Hattrick, 808 Fleming, roof, Thompson, Enterprises, 813 Car- oline, driveway, $200. Fred Thomspn, 1426 tion, $200. Mr, Awjiesiet, 3511 Flagler, porch | Eliza, addi- Like to use lean round steak for hamburgers? Then have a little kidney suet ground with the beet round and your meat patties will be extra juicy and delicious. OL TIPS te To Be Built On Atlantic Ocean Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, November 27, 1954 | Now Available .. . 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