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Caribbean Club on Key Largo , northernmost of the Florida Keys , was developed and built by auto parts and real estate promoter Carl Graham Fisher in 1938. Carl Fisher, considered a genius as a promoter, had helped develop the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Miami Beach and had at one time been worth an estimated $100 million. He lost his fortune in the Stock Market Crash Of 1929 and the Great Depression . The losses in his real estate ventures left Fisher virtually penniless. Always a man whose lifeblood seemed to be new dreams and projects, by the mid 1930s, he was living in a small cottage on Miami Beach and received a US$ 500 per month salary from his former partners to do promotional work. Shortly before his death, in what turned out to be his last project, Fisher developed the Caribbean Club on Key Largo as a Fishing club for men of modest means, "a poor man's retreat." Fisher would probably have appreciated the value, about 8 years after his death, of the Caribbean Club becoming famous as an " On Location " filming site for the 1947 film '' Key Largo '' starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall . In 2006, filled with Bogart memorabilia, the Caribbean Club is still in business as a tourist attraction. REFERENCES Books
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