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Showing posts with label Florida in the 1960s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida in the 1960s. Show all posts
Friday, May 21, 2021

JFK, the Cuba Missile Crisis and a Florida bunker at Peanut Island

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Peanut Island at left, background; Palm Beach across lagoon. Boat rental c. 1938 in Riviera Beach Florida State Archives Peanut Island 6...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Cuba Missile Crisis - JFK response and Florida

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  JFK (right) delivering ultimatum to USSR   10/22/62 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan The extent of U.S. military build...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Florida welcomes S&H Green Stamps 1961

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Indiana Messenger Oct. 26, 1910 By Jane Feehan The stuff of mid-20th century American shopping, S&H Green Stamps entered the South Flori...
Thursday, November 26, 2020

Year of the Coconut - Florida in the 1960s

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From a 1929 postcard Courtesy of  State Archives of  Florida, Florida Memory Posted by Jane Feehan  Coconuts played a part in promoting Flor...
Thursday, October 8, 2020

Disaster at sea: dozens perish in SS Yarmouth Castle fire 1965

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* Photo in public domain By Jane Feehan Eighty seven people, including 27 members of a Pompano Beach senior center, went down with the...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Florida leads nation in population growth - 1960 - and about those food prices

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Ocean World 1965 Florida State Archives The Census of 1960 indicated Florida led the nation with the biggest percentage* increase in populat...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Mandatory Americanism vs. Communism classes in Florida after Castro takes office

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 1962 -Superintendant of Public Instruction Thomas Bailey examining a book on Communism. Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feeha...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Florida's population explosion in the 1950s; Fort Lauderdale leads

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Fort Lauderdale Beach circa 1960  Florida State Archives/Erickson By Jane Feehan A special census was taken* in the mid-1950s in Florid...