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#HistoryTuesday - Tuesday July 14TH 2026

From our Circle - and down West Center Avenue - and making a right onto Lakeview Drive - and over to the left - nestled in-between Edgewater Arms (built in 1964) and Fountainhead (built in 1967) - there it is. And it's been there for over 75 years.

Back in the 1950s and into the 1960s - before Edgewater and Fountainhead - the Lakebreeze Court Motel was a popular overnight and extended stay motel overlooking Lake Jackson with its own private beach. Back in its earliest years it was overlooking Rex Beach Lake, as that was the name of the lake during the 1940s and deep into the mid-1950s.

As with most family-owned motels of its 1950s and 1960s boom era - colorful promotional postcards were created touting their amenities so that you could mail them for a few cents each to family and friends across the nation bragging about the luxury and paradise that you were enjoying. ("Wish You Were Here".)

Back then this motel was located at 3 North Lakeview. Same location, but its address is now 2121 Lakeview. (You may remember when the entirety of Lakeview Drive received new address numbers almost 50 years ago.) Residents know it today as the Banyon Bay Club apartments.

As sprawling multiple story hotels continue to be built - it's fun to look back at the way motels and motor inns used to be back in the middle of the 20TH Century when we were exploring and discovering new towns along the way of the old U.S. highways to our eventual destinations. And some of those classic buildings have survived all of those years since then. Many of us discovered and experienced Sebring for the very first time at a classic roadside motel.

Lakebreeze Court Motel

#HistoryTuesday - 07.14.2026

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