1920's Hotelware - Rare Side Dish Plate from Hotel Mason, St. Petersburg, Florida mt rushmore somewhere there is a bluebird

somewhere there is a bluebird of happiness

rugged landscape and wild spirit

the birds or the placement of the images within the image which helped identify which patterns belonged to which companies

But once he embarked on his trip he began to discover that people and places weren't quite what he had remembered

1920's Hotelware - Rare Side Dish Plate from Hotel Mason, St. Petersburg, Florida mt rushmore somewhere there is a bluebirdHotel Mason will be one of the most beautiful structures in the city (from a Tampa Bay Times newspaper article May 27, 1923) {HISTORY} It only lasted two years, but Hotel Mason, while it was in operation, was a beauty to behold. Built in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1924 by New York steel magnate, Franklin J. Mason, the hotel cost over a million dollars to erect. By 1926, just two years after opening, it went bankrupt and was picked up by new hoteliers