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Do we know when this picture was taken? If I am looking at the picture correctly, where Airport meets 41, I don't see any hint of the Courthouse complex.
Looks like early/mid 1950’s to me. The keys are that Royal Harbor is laid out and dredged but not built upon, and the trees are already planted in Port Royal.
One of the houses on the east side of Shadowlawn is the Chickering house (Leo). Mr. Chickering would become the principal at Shadowlawn Elementary around 1960.
Kind of neat to see Sabal Shores at 3000 Areca Avenue at such an early date. It’s directly across “Kelly Road” from Gulf Shores Marina (formerly Bay Marine?). The significance is that in the 70s, when rental housing became too expensive “in town” there was always Sabal Shores which was kind of an enclave for working class Neapolitans. It was still close enough to town but not too distant like Twin Lakes or Naples Manor.
This has to be from the late fifties, when the state, county, and city fathers were contemplating moving the county seat from Everglades City. The treasure is where they built the government center in the early/mid sixties. Since there were actually houses in Royal Harbor when Donna paid her visit, this pic has to pre-date her. During this same time frame, WNOG was on Kelly Road; when it later moved out to Radio Road in the mid-sixies, the Jolly Whale daycare moved into the station's old building. The owner of the Jolly Whale kept the old neon sign with the station's call letters in the transom window above the front door.
I am looking for a photo before Royal Harbor was laid out, which would show an inlet from the bay where water covered the spot that used to be the old Chlumksy site where Antaramiuns new project is now. And, Charlie, Mr. Chickering was never principal at Shadowlawn. Jean and Bobby Tudor's Dad was principal when I started school there in 1960.
Do we know when this picture was taken? If I am looking at the picture correctly, where Airport meets 41, I don't see any hint of the Courthouse complex.
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i wonder if there's buried tresure under the X.
ReplyDeleteFirst thing I looked for too..the old jail..where they used to have the cart selling Coke's in glass bottles.
ReplyDeleteTreasure. That's funny. Good one.
ReplyDeleteI wish the anonymous would leave their names. I like to know who is crackin' me up.
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Looks like early/mid 1950’s to me. The keys are that Royal Harbor is laid out and dredged but not built upon, and the trees are already planted in Port Royal.
ReplyDeleteOne of the houses on the east side of Shadowlawn is the Chickering house (Leo). Mr. Chickering would become the principal at Shadowlawn Elementary around 1960.
Kind of neat to see Sabal Shores at 3000 Areca Avenue at such an early date. It’s directly across “Kelly Road” from Gulf Shores Marina (formerly Bay Marine?). The significance is that in the 70s, when rental housing became too expensive “in town” there was always Sabal Shores which was kind of an enclave for working class Neapolitans. It was still close enough to town but not too distant like Twin Lakes or Naples Manor.
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Hi, I am helping do some research to find the lost history of kelly road, can you all help?
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or call the Bayfront CRA -- you are awesome
This has to be from the late fifties, when the state, county, and city fathers were contemplating moving the county seat from Everglades City. The treasure is where they built the government center in the early/mid sixties. Since there were actually houses in Royal Harbor when Donna paid her visit, this pic has to pre-date her. During this same time frame, WNOG was on Kelly Road; when it later moved out to Radio Road in the mid-sixies, the Jolly Whale daycare moved into the station's old building. The owner of the Jolly Whale kept the old neon sign with the station's call letters in the transom window above the front door.
ReplyDeleteI am looking for a photo before Royal Harbor was laid out, which would show an inlet from the bay where water covered the spot that used to be the old Chlumksy site where Antaramiuns new project is now. And, Charlie, Mr. Chickering was never principal at Shadowlawn. Jean and Bobby Tudor's Dad was principal when I started school there in 1960.
ReplyDeleteAlso WNOG and Jolly Whale day care was on Palm St.
ReplyDeletenot Kelly Rd.