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Servants' Servants. Florida's new boom bears little resemblance to past periods of bubbling prosperity such as the '80s and '90s, when Oilman Henry Flagler opened up the new vacationland by building a string of hotels down the East Coast and a railroad that eventually reached Key West. It is also different from the '20s, when fun-seeking tycoons went south in private railroad cars with a staff of servants for the servants, and fell over each other to buy medieval houses and fake antique furniture from Addison Mizner. Gone are the hordes of "developers...
Nixon, a duffer who quailed visibly when asked by cameramen to display his swing. By the time Ike flubbed a five-foot putt on the ninth hole, it looked as if things were back to normal in vacationland...
Many of the old salts of the little Island (population 500) ten miles off the Southern shore of Rhode Island did not like the ideas for vacationland that the prospective architects dreamed up. The inhabitants of the Island are content to keep their home just as it is rather than change it into the glamorous place that the students conceived...
...fact that Truman has made Key West his vacationland is now the town's biggest asset. Because of the Truman boom, air-conditioned motels are blooming like red spider lilies in October, new stores are opening, restaurants are crowded, the sidewalks are flowing with women in shorts and halters and men in atom-flash sport shirts. Harry Truman promptly got into the gay spirit, appeared for a press conference wearing soft blue wash slacks, white shoes and a white tail-out shirt decorated with bright blue sea gulls...
Just two and a half hours from South Station stretches Cape Cod, a hundred and twenty miles of vacationland dotted with over ten summer stock companies. From the groups at Falmouth and Dennis with a star on the boards every week, to the groups of "hopefuls" at Provincetown and Chatham, one finds a wide assortment of summer theatre entertainment...