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The Lighthouse Sea Food Restaurant and Cocktail Bar at Bakers Haulover in North Miami Beach, Florida is reported to have hosted such celebrities at actor Robert Mitchum, who got his start playing a villain in Hopalong Cassidy westerns, and highly popular radio and TV personality Arthur Godfrey. The business was incorporated on August 9, 1944, the same day that the United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council released posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. On December 22, 1967, a few days before Christmas, a devastating fire virtually destroyed the restaurant and its iconic lighthouse facsimile. With the Vietnam War taking up nearly all of the TV news in those days, the destruction of the famous landmark barely made the news. All that remains of this once popular destination are old post card images such as this one.
This story appeared in the
Mar/Apr 2014 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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