Hotel Habana Riviera - 1957

The Havana Riviera is a historic resort hotel located on the Malecón waterfront boulevard in the Vedado district of Havana. The hotel was built in 1957 and still maintains its original 1950s style. It has twenty-one floors containing 352 rooms.

The Havana Riviera was originally owned by mobster Meyer Lansky who had been inspired to build it after visiting his friend, Moe Dalitz's nine-storey Riviera Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. It was intended to rival the comfort and contemporary luxury of any Las Vegas hotel of the era. The choice to build in Havana was because Lansky simply did not want to be subject to U.S. laws or the scrutiny of the FBI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Habana_Riviera

A Ford model A (around 1930) can be seen in the foreground.