April 12, 2024
ca1930s color postcard Pan-American Airways Globe, Miami Florida Pan Am terminal
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ca. 1930s full color postcard, linen finish, number 45 , captioned:Huge Globe of the Earth, Pan-American Airways Terminal, Miami Florida. ( this is the interior of Pan AM terminal in Dinner Key- Coconout Grove , back in 1930's, )and further caption: The Globe is 10 feet diameter and weights 3 1/4 tons .Card was published in Miami by Elit Witt Cigar & Tobacco CoMade by Tichnor bros Inc Boston Mass size 5 1/2 x 3 1/2. very good condition FOR YOUR INFO The Pan American Airways facility was once the largest seaplane terminal in the world and the main hub for air traffic between North and South America . In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from here on a flight to Casablanca, Morocco. Designed by Delano and Aldrich, the Streamline Moderne building has been the Miami City Hall since 1954 and retains many of its original features.( WINGED CLOCK AND PLANES PAINTS STILL THERE) Today the building houses the Mayor, Commissioners and the City Clerk in a spectacular bayfront setting. Pan Am had been founded in 1927 as a mail and passenger carrier for flights between Florida and Cuba. After WWII PanAm sold its hangers and terminal to the City of Miami in 1946. The Pan Am Globe is now at the Miami Science Museum.
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