Old postcards

In the carefree years which preceded the war by 1914, in those, happy and avid which succeeded to them, Hyères became for much the enchanteress city where it is of good tone to remain the winter, if not of living.
Alphonse Denis made his city, very quickly, a nice city and, even if the word isn't used yet, the snobbery attracts there a rich, carefree, avid crowd of luxury, which fills up the luxurious de luxe hotels where one spends the money without counting.
Survivors of this time keep the nostalgia of this past altogether not so remote, where barouches, victorias and even tram led famous hosts or fortunate tourists towards the hotel of the Gold Islands " small city in the city " as Aufreuve wrote it. By seeing this hotel of princely appearance, you it adds, the foreigner understands that it arrives in a kind of promised ground where the beautiful place is kept to him. This hotel, one would say readily this palate, is well more than one decoration ".
Other sumptuous palate, the Golf-Hotel, to the east of the city, in the valley of Gapeau, offered to its client 300 rooms, including 60 with bath. In the medium of a vast field a sporting center with a golf of 18 holes was, 4 courts of tennis and 5 croquets. This establishment of high luxury was destroyed with the release. It will not be ! Not rebuilt and will miss cruelly with the tourist development of the city after 1945.
In the rich person years of Hyères, the large Casino, built within Mr. Fomberteaux in the neighbourhoods of 1910, was also a high-place of tourism, with bar-restaurant, living room of reading, rings tradesmen, room the small horses one, etc... The room of spectacle, in the purest style roccoco of the time, included/understood meadows of 900 places. Parts of théatre, operas, operettas, official receptions of varieties and concerts followed one another it.