![]() The main house is filled with high Victorian chairs with elaborate embroidery. And he saw the potential to restore it to its original glory.”Īnd restore it they did. He saw an authentic piece of Old Floridathat was in danger of being lost forever. ![]() “But he was able to see beyond the shabbiness. “The club was abandoned and ready to be condemned when my Dad first saw it in 1970,” says Patty Bowen, one of the owners. Or, they can just relax with a good book on the white wicker chairs out on the porch overlooking the river, in the glow of warm sunshine and precious silence. They can loll over an excellent meal in the dining room overlooking the river, as the sun sets over the Glades. They can hike on local trails in one of the world’s great natural wonderlands, or visit nearby Indian reservations. Today, the guests who come here can fish in the Everglades or the Barron River, which the club overlooks. They’ve closed down the top two floors of the main building, kept the bottom floor (with a fine restaurant, great room, Victorian sitting rooms, general store, etc.) as an authentic monument to those grandiose times, and built five cottages with four units each for guests. In 1972 it was purchased by the Bowen family, who still own it today. Collier turned it into a private establishment for his well-heeled friends.ĭuring the next half-century, the Rod & Gun Club in Everglades City saw booms and busts, along with the rest of Florida. In 1922, it was purchased by Barron Collier, a wealthy rancher and industrialist after whom Collier County is named. It was originally built upon a foundation set by the first permanent settler here, who founded Everglades City in 1864. In this tiny town of some 400 souls, the Rod & Gun Club is a living monument to a Gilded Age. In fact, it’s actually the original furniture from the days when the Rod & Gun Club was a playground for some of the world’s wealthiest people. The ambience – and all the furniture – is from the turn of the century. But when you open the doors and walk inside, you’re suddenly enveloped in a time-warp. Here, you’ll pass mile after mile of uninhabited wilderness – except for Florida panthers, black bears, and hundreds of species found nowhere else in the world – until you come to the small town of Everglades City.įrom the outside, the Everglades City Rod & Gun Club looks simply like an old white lodge. It's called the Rod & Gun Club in Everglades City. Overall, it’s a solid production starring people who are pretty significantly underrated today.There’s a place on the Southwest Coast of Florida, deep in the 10,000 Islands area of the Everglades, where it’s still the 19th Century. I was also surprised just how sexy and seductive Neal was, which is quite a bit different than other roles I’ve seen here in such as The Day the Earth Stood Still. ![]() Now, that sort of leading man and the inability to communicate with women gets old pretty fast, which is why I really don’t read Hemingway anymore. ![]() Curtiz was always an excellent director and Garfield is about as perfect a Hemingway leading man as you can get. It’s a pretty solid adaptation and significantly closer to the Hemingway vision than the previous film. It was an interesting decision to even make this film since Bogart and Bacall had starred in a far looser adaptation of the book but with the title a few years earlier. Tonight, let’s watch the 1950 adaptation of Hemingway’s Have and Have Not, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring John Garfield as the desperate and proud sea captain, Patricia Neal as the seductive woman he sort of befriends, Phyllis Thaxter as his wife, and Juano Hernandez and Wallace Ford in key supporting roles.
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