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Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale in the 1950s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale in the 1950s. Show all posts
Sunday, February 4, 2024

Jolly Roger Hotel and a pirate flag debate

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Jolly Roger Hotel 1953, State Archives of Florida Pirate flag, Åland Maritime Museum * See below for more  By Jane Feehan A flag controversy...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Fort Lauderdale's Croissant Park and its colorful developer Frank Croissant - of Roll 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...
Friday, September 1, 2023

Mid-century modern masterpiece - Sea Tower of Fort Lauderdale

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  Sea Tower 2023, rear, facing beach Sea Tower Apartments 2840 North Ocean Drive Fort Lauderdale By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale first saw ...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Build a hospital, they will come: the Holy Cross Hospital story

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Holy Cross Hospital in 1996: expanded since this photo State Archives of Florida Holy Cross Hospital 4725 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdal...
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...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Bahia Mar: "more business, publicity to Fort Lauderdale than any other man-made attraction"

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  Bahia Mar circa 1960s, Florida State Archives/Florida Memory Bahia Mar 801 Seabreeze Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 By Jane Feehan ...
Monday, May 30, 2022

Fort Lauderdale's War Memorial Auditorium: tribute to the fallen transformed

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  War Memorial Auditorium 1967 Florida State Archives War Memorial Auditorium 800 NE 8th Street Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304 https://www.f...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Chemist Shop on Las Olas Boulevard - once "America's most unusual drugstore"

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Florida State Archives/Dept. of Commerce  By Jane Feehan   A quiet drug store on Las Olas served as the unofficial hub of that boulevard l...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Bahia Mar Yacht Basin - cabbage palm logs and historical relics?

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Bahia Mar 1951 Florida State Archives/Florida Memories By Jane Feehan Bahia Mar, once home to the  third fort buil t  during the Seminole Wa...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Fort Lauderdale in the 1950s - only 37,000 residents ... and today?

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  Fort Lauderdale 1955  Florida State Archives/Florida Memory By Jane Feehan In the 1950s*, gasoline was 24 cents a gallon, Thanksgiving din...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Historic Gateway Theater continues to "reel"

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Gateway Theater 1820 E. Sunrise Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 954-763-7994 By Jane Feehan Few living in or visiting Fort Lauderdale fail t...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

A tunnel under Fort Lauderdale's Intracoastal at Las Olas, a short-lived idea ... until now

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Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Many know about Fort Lauderdale’s Henry E. Kinney Tunnel* along US Highway 1 (Federal Highway), under ...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

Arrests for bicycle sirens in Fort Lauderdale?

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Posted by Jane Feehan Kids have always managed to find mischief. These days arrest-worthy shenanigans may be computer, drug or gun-related. ...
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...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Beer-drinking pig draws customers to Fort Lauderdale restaurant until ...

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After World War II tourism gained a strong foothold in Fort Lauderdale. But this seaside city had not yet earned the sophisticated reputatio...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Sen. Kefauver stunned by Broward Sheriff Clark 1950 acquittal

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Kefauver By Jane Feehan Broward County Sheriff Walter Clark turned a blind eye to illicit gambling for years (he served as sheriff 1...