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The sharp thud of a tennis ball on the hotel courts, and the call of the score, make staccato interruption against a background of murmuring waves that sing their lullaby along the golden beaches of the point. Rising from the masses of azaleas and camellias and Japanese cherry trees that make the hotel park glow with the | beauty of their blossoms, the hotel lifts its graceful outlines against the blue of the southern skies.
A double-decked pleasure pier extends far out over the waters of the bay. Salt and fresh water swimming are at hand on the hotel grounds. The hotel yacht basin shelters sailboats and power yachts, and offers full accommodations for all boats, large and small. Motor boats, skiffs, canoes and sailboats, can be had at the hotel, and competent guides will be supplied, if desired. The South?s finest fishing grounds?fresh water, salt water and deep-sea?with two outstanding annual fishing rodeos, are close by. A marine filling station is operated in connection with the yacht basin.
A close-up of the lobby entrance
Guest privileges on two of the South?s most sporting golf courses (Mobile Country Club championship course and the Fairhope Country Club course) are provided by the hotel for its patrons. Five-gaited saddle horses are at hand for those who like to ride the picturesque woodland trails that lie adjacent to the hotel. Bicycling, too, is enjoyed. In the hotel?s spacious and comfortable game room, every kind of indoor game is ready for the guest?s pleasure. A skilled social director is at hand to arrange games, picnics, parties and tournaments, and to help enthusiastically with plans for sports and parties, indoors and outdoors.
A pleasant feature of the Grand Hotel is the informal, home-like spirit that prevails. Another, is that all of the hotel?s eightv-four spaci-
ous rooms are outside rooms, opening on the full beauty of the glorious Point Clear view. All the rooms have either tub or shower baths. Telephones, too, are in all rooms, and telegraph offices are located in the hotel. A central heating plant insures comfort throughout the building on chilly days, but an additional cozy touch is contributed by the huge old-fashioned three-way fireplace in the lobby. The attractive hotel bar is modernistic in design.
The dining-room, with an unobstructed view over the bay in all directions, also has an open fireplace. The cuisine is under the capable management of a chef who specializes in delicious Southern-style foods, a master who has the genius touch for the delicate art of combining foods and flavors in ways that cause the connoisseur to exclaim with delfght. The modern, electric, table-to-table food service is used. The hotel kitchens, too, are modern in every way, and are to the last degree sanitary, in every respect.
The usual specialty shops are ready to serve the hotel?s guests. Garage accommodations are provided for those who bring their cars, and there are accommodations also for servants who accompany guests.
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