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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Nightclub stories: Unsolved murders at Bocaccio's in Broward County

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  By Jane Feehan A popular club with live entertainment and flashy customers, Bocaccio’s was similar to many late-night venues in the Fort L...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Will the 1974 -75 Fort Lauderdale real estate story be repeated?

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  Downtown Fort Lauderdale 2025 By Jane Feehan  Fort Lauderdale has seen several building busts and booms since World War II. A glan...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Sign of those times, the Space Satellite Hotel, Pompano Beach

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Pompano Beach 2024   Space Satellite Hotel Once at 1450 So. Ocean Blvd. Pompano Beach (now Lauderdale-by-the-Sea) By Jane Feehan  The spa...
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...
Monday, February 17, 2025

Fort Lauderdale - farm or beach?

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  By Jane Feehan High hopes for farming helped fuel Fort Lauderdale’s early growth. The first big wave of investors came to the rural town...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas bridge, the Dwight L. Rogers Memorial Causeway

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  Las Olas bridge view from Idlewyld neighborhood 2024 By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale’s population grew from 17,996 in 1940 to 36,328 resi...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Fort Lauderdale in the news 1950 - surprises and …

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  Fort Lauderdale   A fast-growing city in 1950, Fort Lauderdale began to capture the attention—and headlines—of northern newspapers. Some n...