Interesting photo mostly because its the only one I can find that has the Anchor Lounge in it. Also Seashell Motel, Howard Johnson's (got his ho-jo workin') a good chunk of Naples Junior High even the new Naples Daily News building although it might have been the Collier County News at that time who knows?
Great picture. The NDN building looks like it was brand new when this was taken. You can also see the old McDonald's Quarters neighborhood in the lower right corner. To the left you can see the old lumber yards that use to be along 1st Ave So.
ReplyDeleteUp top you can also see the old Naples Motor Lodge (now Lemon Tree Inn) across from HoJO's.
Don't thing I have ever seen this particular photo before this. Good catch!
That’s The Anchor “before” the dancing feet got painted around the roof perimeter. If anyone can come up with a picture of the dancing feet, that would be a major score (kinda like the “Hawaiian Pearl”).
ReplyDeleteCheck out Trail Cleaner’s, the “Old” Post Office, the backside of Monty’s / Muldoon’s, the Naples Raceway slot-car track, and the original Badcock Furniture across the post office parking lot . . . and all of that is just in the upper left corner!
Yeah, I know that Hartley’s Variety store on the NE corner of 41 and 1st Ave. North is across the street from the Seashell Motel, but I also recall that Mr. Daugherty ran the Sherwin-Williams paint store kitty-corner to Hartley’s, and that it was an Amoco gas station across from Howard-Johnson.
Seagate Homeboy
NHS Class of ‘67
2:00 p.m. PDT
What is the story on the Quarters? I remember as a child going to an area by the train station that was called the Quarters. It was a very run down neighborhood.It was a black neighborhood.Is this the area you mention that is in the photo?The quarters I remember did not look like the same in the photo. My memory of the area was shortly before or after Donna in 1960. The buildings were not all the same. Just curious.
ReplyDeleteI believe that you are talking about what was known as McDonald's quarters, and they were located to the East of 10th street. You can't see it from this picture.
ReplyDeleteMartin Jones
Did you know that Hartley's variety store was originally where the Kwik-Chek was located? When they firts came to town, that was their location but they quickly outgrew it and moved up the the well-remembered location on US41.
ReplyDeleteMarty Jones
NHS class of 70
The questions answered on McDonals's Quarters, some trivia and other history:
ReplyDeleteI was in college and a part-time bouncer at the old Anchor Lounge, rough? You betcha! It seemed people came to the Lounge to fight! McDonald's Quarters was an old migrant farm village when Naples Farms raised tomatoes. It called it McDonald's after the owner who lived in Fort Myers. "The Quarters" had two bars, one by 10th St, "The Juke," where we played Checkers on an old FP&L wooden cable reel using bottle caps as pieces, the other & 12th St, "The Green Top Social Cafe." The Collier County News moved from down by the flag-pole by City Dock in 1969 to that new building on Central and became The Naples Daily News.
I was dating Rachael Pike who was a reporter. We met when she came to do a story on my misfortune when my boat crashed on the beach about 3600 South on Gorden Dr in 1968. Harlan-Barton Labs worked out of that small concrete building on the SE corner of 5th Ave N. & 41, I got a job doing soil tests on the runways of the Dade-Collier Jetport 60 miles out on 41 East by the Osceola Indian Village (just East of where the ranger station is now). That Jetport was supposed to become what is now Fort Myers International, the newly empowered 'Environmental Protection Agency radicals put a halt to the Dade-Collier venture, financially ruining many investors.
Whew, memories.
Virgil Cottongim