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Grand Hotel is open the year round, the Gulf Coast climate offering many attractions throughout the year. Guests arriving by car will find paved highways leading from all points directly to the hotel. Those arriving by train should come to Mobile, Alabama, where they will be met on arrival (if the hotel is notified in advance) by a hotel car. Mobile is served by the following railroads: Louisville and Nashville; Gulf, Mobile and Ohio; Alabama, Tennessee and Northern; and Southern. Also by the Eastern Airlines and the National Airlines; and by bus lines. Baggage should be shipped to Mobile, with instructions to notify the Grand Hotel, at Point Clear, Alabama. Inquiries and reservations are welcomed, and should be addressed to Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama.
N'D so, with Grand Hotel III, Twentieth Century style, does Point Clear Cavalcade reach through the span of centuries to its new climax in a hotel that would bring exclamations of surprised delight from the lips of the old Admiral de Pineda himself, if he could but sail again into his Bahia de Spirito Sancto after an absence of four hundred and twenty-five years! Well he?ll not come?more?s the pity; for a right jolly old fellow he was, no doubt. But on a bright moonlight night on the old Point you can nearly?nearly, I said?see his ornate old caravel there at anchor, in the bay. Perhaps, too, you can nearly? nearly, that is?see young Bienville the Gallant, with his brave elder brother, d?Iberville, all gold and lace, striding sturdily along in the dancing moonbeams. And those gay, crinolined ladies of the last
A glimpse of the lagoon
century, with their beaux of the poetic speech and flowered vests? wouldn?t they like this fine new hotel! Perhaps, with imagination?s clear eye, you?d see them here, too, where in days gone by they played and loved and danced the happy hours away. Once, daydreaming there at midnight, I even thought I saw a great carved and painted piroque slide silently across the path of the moon with its crew of Maubilean braves . . .
But come! We?ll add our own chapter to all this pageant of joy and romance; and there at Point Clear, where all those worthy ones in their day lived, for a while, and made merry, we?ll make merry, too. And you?you?ll come, too, and join us. For Mobile Bay and Point Clear are calling you; calling you, with their age-long irresistible summons?with a call that may find you nearby, or go half way round the world to reach you?but a call that goes only to those who are worthy of happiness, and by them is never forgotten or disobeyed; and Grand Hotel is inviting you?now?to keep that rendezvous with romance and beauty, with health, happiness, and a life filled to the brim with the crowning gift of living joyfully.
Grand Hotel and Point Clear, sketched from offshore