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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 333452, member: 136&quot;]Billy, I imagine that there have been many <i>Harbor Island Spa</i>s in various places over the years, but I&#039;m going to agree with Debora that your outfit came from the one in Miami.</p><p><br /></p><p>A man named Larry Paskow owned a <i>Harbor Island Spa</i> in Long Branch, NJ. The place was know for its Mafia activity. In 1964, Larry married a 2nd wife, and the two of them went to Miami, where they purchased the J Hotel and renamed it with the same name as the one in NJ: the <i>Harbor Island Spa</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Larry&#039;s son became the owner of the NJ location and ran it until sometime in the early 1980&#039;s. (In 1979, local Mafia boss Anthony “Little Pussy” Russo was murdered in his room at that spa - it was a suspected mob hit.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Larry&#039;s new wife was referred to in Miami as &quot;Queen of the <i>Harbor Island Spa</i>&quot;. The Miami location catered to a different clientele, mainly Jewish, and promised luxurious spa accommodations and all sorts of luxury treatments.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no doubt that the Miami location would have had a boutique of some sort, selling clothing such as the dress &amp; coat you have there. It reminds me of some of the things my mother &amp; her friends wore &quot;to the club&quot; in the mid-1960&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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