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Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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Clearwater Beach tourism photo archive photographed by George Fulmer, documenting midcentury Gulf Coast visitor commerce through motel courts, apartment lodgings, seasonal rate signs, furnished rental interiors, restaurant frontage, retail display, and weekend entertainment in 1953 and 1955. Fulmer's assignments record Clearwate…r during the postwar automobile travel boom, when Florida beach towns competed for motorists through inexpensive overnight lodging, visible roadside pricing, furnished efficiency rooms, seafood restaurants, and short-stay leisure promotion. The archive preserves the commercial visual language used to attract travelers to Florida's Gulf Coast at the height of early Sunbelt expansion, before high-rise redevelopment transformed much of Clearwater Beach. The named studio envelopes and coordinated commercial assignments give the group unusual specificity, tying Clearwater's resort economy to identifiable businesses, dated jobs, and seasonal advertising practices by notable city photographer George Fulmer. Photo archive of 40 items including 19 silver gelatin prints with 21 accompanying original and duplicate large format negatives, ranging from 3 x 4 to 4 x 5 inches, Clearwater Beach and Clearwater, Florida, 1953-1955. The archive is comprised of some original and some duplicate images between the negatives and photographs. Nine original George Fulmer studio envelopes identify assignments including "Pelican Restaurant," "City Beach Pump House," "Signs Beach Apts.," "Wallace Apts. Beach," "Our Bay Restaurant," "Weekend in Clearwater," "Hickey," and "Broadmore Motel," with the Broadmore envelope dated January 14, 1955. A low motel court opens onto a central lawn and walkway occupied by seated adults and children; a man and woman stand beside a parked car under a sign reading "WALLACE APTS. / VACANCY / OVERNIGHT"; interiors contain sofas, lamps, dining sets, venetian blinds, and compact kitchen areas prepared for seasonal renters. Exterior signs advertise "20 ROOMS $4.00 DOUBLE Apr. 1 to Dec. 1," "15 UNITS $5.00 DOUBLE APRIL 15 NOV. 15," and "SUMMER RATES $5.00 PER COUPLE FROM APRIL 15 TO NOV. 15." Bay Restaurant frontage carries lettering for "SEA FOOD," "PACKAGE GOODS," "STEAKS CHOPS," and "CHICKEN," while performers stand at microphones in the "Weekend in Clearwater" assignment, with a pianist visible behind one stage setup. A Hickey-Freeman Customized Clothes storefront adds a downtown retail component to the commercial landscape documented here. By the early 1950s, Clearwater's economy depended heavily on seasonal tourism tied to automobile travel and winter migration into Florida. Motels, apartment lodgings, restaurants, package stores, entertainment venues, and retail storefronts competed for travelers arriving along expanding Gulf Coast highway routes, often advertising directly through roadside signage visible from passing cars. Fulmer's archive is strongest where it preserves those everyday commercial mechanics in named businesses rather than generalized resort imagery. Light curling, corner wear, and handling marks to prints and negatives; studio envelopes toned and worn with manuscript annotations. Overall good condition. A tightly focused record of Clearwater Beach tourism at the scale of the motel room, roadside vacancy sign, restaurant entrance, retail storefront, and weekend entertainment stage.
