The Bellemont

This is one of the less common Bellemont postcards that I've come across. I'd love it if one of our Bellemont insiders could identify some of these buildings and maybe the general time frame. I know it's before 1957, because the PanAmerican Suite isn't there. It doesn't really help with dating the image, but in case anyone was wondering, the coat of arms on the postcard was first used in 1946 and became a registered trademark in 1951.
I can't tell if this is an aerial photo or an artist rendering. Thoughts?
The pool at the left is the Tradewinds, and it isn't very visible, but the Plaza pool is at the top right. This is the original facade of the building with the columns visible (it wasn't enclosed until 1985). Did the PanAm Suite fill in the gap on the left side? I don't remember it being so close to Tradewinds, though. And of course the vacant land to the left became The Great Hall.
Also, I am really curious about what happened to the cool arrow sign in front of the hotel. I remember it being there in the 70s. Anyone know?

One of our followers asks:
"Could you please make a post asking if anyone has pictures of the bands playing there? My dad Mike Steen played in the bands and actually lived at the Belmont. Those were great days".
She adds that he played the trumpet.
I would also like to hear from anyone in The Inn Crowd, the Baton Rouge Band. Have pics of them at The Bellemont? We'd love to see them!

This is one of my favorite pictures of The Bellemont, taken by my friend Dawn as the demolition was winding down. I find it symbolic, showing the beauty of The Bellemont in its former glory and the passage of time. Nature reclaiming what was man-made.
At this stage we were trying to save the mosaic wall that faced the private pool in what many dubbed, "The Honeymoon Suite", but by its formal name was "The PanAmerican Suite." I didn’t know it existed until I saw some colorful tiles peeking through the dense vines on one of my walk-throughs of the property with the demolition guys, who’d given me permission to take pictures. A trip to the library, going through some old “The Register”s -- I guess you’d call it a society page-type publication from the 1950s -- revealed stories about its history, and that of the suite in general, the only one in the Louisiana, or possibly the US, at the time, with its own private pool.
Ultimately, our efforts to save the wall failed, in part because of the impossibility of somehow sawing this giant, thick, concrete wall into pieces that could even be transported, and also in part to vandalism of the demolition equipment that required the demo guys I had been working with to be replaced by another crew.
When I say this wall was "giant", I'm not exaggerating. I paid the demo crew to remove the vines, and they had to use a crane to get up to the top of it. It was HUGE, and there was one young college student from LSU, Pat Harper, who designed it and put it together BY HERSELF. (If you remember the big LSU mural that was in the hotel, she painted it, too.)
Maybe a year after the property was flattened, I drove back to the lot, parked, and walked over to this area. I found a few tiles scattered around. It looked like the wall may have been bulldozed into the pool. At least it got to see the light of day one last time.
If you have any memories of the PanAm and its beautiful, private pool, please post them in a comment. And thank you again to Dawn for taking the photo and sharing it with us.