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Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale communities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale communities. Show all posts
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Riviera Isles off Las Olas - brisk sales, a hotel and a hard landing after the Great Hurricane

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  Riviera Isles 1996, State Archives of Florida By Jane Feehan To some, Fort Lauderdale is known as a modern Venice. Finger islands bordered...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Fort Lauderdale’s Victoria Park and links to Jai Alai and Armistice Day

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Victoria Park, city park and community. Lake Stranahan view   By Jane Feehan  Fort Lauderdale land sales heated up during the 1920s attrac...
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Fort Lauderdale’s Yellowstone Park

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  Fort Lauderdale 1917 - New River & Intracoastal State Archives of Florida   By Jane Feehan Yes, Fort Lauderdale has a Yellowstone Par...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Fort Lauderdale's Croissant Park and its colorful developer Frank Croissant - of Rolls Royces, diamonds and a solid gold dinner service

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  Croissant Park Administration Building  at 1421 South Andrews Avenue   By Jane Feehan Many may know of or grew up in Croissant Park, one o...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Edgar Gould, his island off Las Olas and a new page in Fort Lauderdale history

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Plans drawn for development - 1940 Courtesy of Debbie Gould Tucker By Jane Feehan Edgar Davis Gould’s purchase of a swampy, mangrove-covered...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Fort Lauderdale's Harbor Beach: exclusive then and now

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  Harbor Beach circa 1980 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory/Steinmetz By Jane Feehan According to some news accounts, the first Fort Lau...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Developers Haft-Gaines in 1970s Fort Lauderdale: Bay Colony, Imperial Point, Inverrary and ...

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  By Jane Feehan New condominium and rental projects overtaking the Fort Lauderdale landscape like a bad dream calls for a look back to th...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Sea Ranch Lakes: A reluctant buyer, a hotel and an exclusive community

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By Jane Feehan Robert Hayes Gore purchased The Fort Lauderdale News in 1929, one of many of his purchases that helped define today’s Fort...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith and the Lauderdale Harbors land "purchase"

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  Griffith 1907/ Creative Commons By Jane Feehan This started out as a piece about famous filmmaker David Wark Griffith (1875-1948*) and his...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Lauderdale Manors and the 1950s boom ... of square dances and midwesterners

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By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale grew significantly during its second real estate boom.  Work began in February, 1950 on a ‘huge new developme...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

The last of Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas isles to be developed was ...

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Las Olas canals 1961 Archives of the State of Florida/Rubel, A. 1961 By Jane Feehan  In October 1957, about 150 Fort Lauderdale area...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

A Sunday afternoon ride to Melrose Park ...

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Fort Lauderdale beach   By Jane Feehan   While Miami made headlines during the 1950s for its growth in tourism and housing construction...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Galt Mile jewels in the 1950s: Ocean Manor, Galt Ocean Mile Hotel and ...

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By Jane Feehan By 1958, building on the Galt Mile was well underway; it was a dream of developers James S. Hunt and Stephen A. Cald...