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THURSDAY, AUGUST
2, 2018
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Iconic resort hosted plenty of celebrities and celebrated memories. See Pages 9-12
THROUGH THE YEARS TIMELINE: OPENING TO
1954 Herb Field clears the land himself to build the Colony Beach Resort. Among its features, a nine-hole pitch and putt golf course. Six tennis courts eventually replace the golf feature in the mid-1960s 1968 The Klauber family moves to Longboat Key from Buffalo, N.Y. 1970 Field leases Colony to Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber 1972
Klauber and a business partner buy the Colony for $3.5 million with a goal
CLOSING
of turning the resort into America’s first “tennis-centric resort.” 1972 Klauber forms the first condominium hotel rental partnershi p in Florida. 1984
An agreement that would prove key to the dispute between the resort owners and the unit owners permits the resort owners to commit a portion of the hotel profits to pay for repairs to common elements, which the unit owners are required to maintain. CONTINUED ON
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 A family enjoys the
beach at Herb Fields’
Colony Beach Club
in 1957. State Library &
Archives of Florida
SO LONG, COLONY A tribute to the place that put Longboat on the map for so many — from humble start to international fame. PAGE 9-12A
Demolition begins, could take 120 days. PAGE 5A n Thanks for the memories. PAGE 8A n
Bret Hauff