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Pink Pony Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge, c. 1955

Item

Title

Pink Pony Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge, c. 1955

Description

The Pink Pony restaurant and cocktail lounge, located at the intersection of Highway US 1 and Indian Street (three miles south of Stuart at the time). Owners, Stanley Mistura and William Bass, who also owned the Blue Goose Inn and restaurant in Stuart contracted Herbey G. Gass to design and build the restaurant, which opened around May 1955.

The Pink Pony remained a popular destination through the 1960s but was sold in 1977 to two chefs that renovated the building and reopened the restaurant as Le Pavilion, which served French cuisine. Then in the 1980s, the building was torn down to make way for the Wedgewood Commons shopping center.

Source

Scan gift of Sandra Thurlow.

Publisher

Tru-Color (Coral Gables, Fla.)

Rights

No Copyright - In the United States: The Martin County Library System believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. For more information, visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Format

1 color postcard; 5.5x3.5 inches

Language

English

Type

Still Image

Identifier

Thurlow-2025-039-postcards-160
2025.039

Coverage

Original Format

Postcard

Collection

Citation

“Pink Pony Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge, c. 1955,” Martin Digital History, accessed October 5, 2026, https://www.martindigitalhistory.org/items/show/16558.