The Ocean Club was originally developed as the private estate of a Swedish industrialist, Axel Wenner-Gren. For more than two decades he created a magnificent estate with intricately landscaped gardens inspired by those at the Chateau de Versailles. Wenner-Gren christened it Shangri-La.
In 1962 Huntington Hartford II, heir to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company fortune, bought the island and petitioned the Bahamaian government to rename the island Paradise. He built the original Ocean Club, a luxurious 52-room hotel with an 18-hole golf course. The club enticed generations of A-listers to its prime five-mile stretch of beach on Paradise Island.
Postcards
1963 – Lofthouse Agency Ltd (P52000 Series – Type EB)
1963 – JPM Associatates (C-27400 Series)
1964 – Lofthouse Agency Ltd (P52200 Series – Type FB)
1964 – Dexter Press Inc (DT-88900 Series – Type A)
