Vintage ballpoint signatures, "Marilyn Monroe" and "Best wishes, Joe DiMaggio,” on the reverse of a 5.5 x 3.5 AAA postcard for Florida's Tides Hotel and Bath Club. Includes a set of five vintage color candid photographs, ranging in size from 3.25 x 4 to 5.75 x 4, each showing the vacationing Monroe and DiMaggio relaxing under cabanas and strolling the shoreline of North Redington Beach. The postcard and photos are mounted and displayed within a transparent case to an overall size of 11.25 x 14.25. In overall fine condition.
Replete with stately dining rooms, dinner theater, two beach front pools, and ballroom, the Tides Hotel and Bath Club in St. Petersburg, Florida, was a one-time destination for some of the era's most rich and famous. Amid rumors that the pair were planning to remarry, DiMaggio took Monroe to the resort for a short vacation in March 1961, only a month removed from Monroe's ordeal at the Payne Whitney Clinic and Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The former ballplayer was also there to attend the Yankee Training Camp as a spring batting instructor. Items signed by both Monroe and DiMaggio remain exceedingly rare, with this postcard representing DiMaggio's noted devotion to his former wife.
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