Chalet Suzanne: A Florida Roadside Classic

1987: Home of the Soup That Went to the Moon!
WTVJ-4's John Holden drops into Chalet Suzanne in this 1987 story. This was after the Polk County landmark's trademark Romaine Soup had flown to the moon with U.S. astronauts and after most of it burned down in 1943 and long after it was started as a high-end golf and tennis resort co-founded by cheese baron James L. Kraft and Carl and Bertha Hinshaw.
But it was before the fabled inn and eatery closed in 2014 when its co-owners, the heirs to the Hinshaws retired, and before the Chalet's line of canned soups, introduced in 1956, ceased production, and well before the resort's conversion to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center.
In its day Chalet Suzanne was known for its gourmet cuisine and its eccentric, pieced-together architecture, a legacy of the 1943 fire. Cans of its Romaine soup flew into space on Apollo 15 & 16, earning it the nickname "Moon Soup."
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This clip is derived from news video in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number B00633-15; airdate August 11, 1987.

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Broiled grapefruit and finger bowls!

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I wonder if it's still there or if they knocked it down to build apartment complexes or shopping plazas like they always do, unbelievable.