That Was Palm Beach.

PRATT, Theodore.

$400.00

Item Number: 138405

St. Petersburg, Florida: Great Outdoors, 1968.

First edition of Pratt’s history of Flagler era of Palm Beach, Florida. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. In very good condition. Front cover photograph of “the great Royal Poinciana Hotel which once stood in Palm Beach, the grandest hotel of all time, the largest wooded building ever built in the history of the world.”

In That Was Palm Beach, notable historian Theodore Pratt describes the golden age of Palm Beach Florida, "...when Flagler extended his railroad all the way to Miami... then began the Flagler era of Palm Beach, when he founded the resort with his great Royal Poinciana Hotel, Bradley opened his world-famous gambling place, the Beach Club, and Flagler built his own home, a marble palace called Whitehall, and society discovered the resort."