Myrtle Bank Hotel, Kingston. Built by the United Fruit Company for wealthy passengers of their banana boats. It became the center of Kingston's upper crust life. It was renovated many times.
- This was first built in 1870. The first photo appears to be this one.
- Then torn down and rebuilt for the Great Exhibition of 1891. Many postcards of this one.
- Then it was destroyed by the 1907 earthquake and rebuilt again.
- In 1943, Abe Issa convinced his father, Elias Issa, to venture into the hotel industry and purchase the hotel. The hotel thrived under Abe.
- On September 30, 1964 the hotel closed. They hoped to sell as a hotel.
- In 1969 it succumbed to a large urban renewal scheme. It was an open lot, then a road was run through it. And eventually an office building.
