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Today, many people look at the Marina Jack
restaurant and boat docks and think they have always been here. Not
so...They are just beyond where the Scots landed and built our first
pier. It wasn't much at first, and it has evolved over the years to
become the park and marina we have today.
Tales of Sarasota
Point Welcome
What a welcome sight it must have been for the weary travelling Snow Birds when they feasted their eyes on over 200 giant clam shells, spelling out "Welcome", at the intersection of U.S. 41 and North Bay Shore Road. Paradise Found!
From December of 1933 through 1939, during tourist season, members of the American Legion Bay Post #30, with help from the City of Sarasota, handed out free orange juice and information about local attractions and accommodations. Chartered tour bus drivers soon discovered a way to give their clients free refreshments and a visit to the comfort station.
It's startling to think back when there were only two major highways into the City of Sarasota from the north and only one road out, going south. Things haven't changed much in 70 years, have they?
Exactly what caused the demise of "Point Welcome" is clouded by the passage of time and the passing of people. Like many other things; it was good while it lasted.
Life was/is good!
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Where Was I?
This week's "Then" and "Now" shot takes us back
to the days when we had our first 'fire proof' buildings. In the early
days the stores and buildings on Main Street were mostly made of wood,
and hence a constant fire hazard.
Townspeople got smart and a multi-purpose structure was built and housed many much-needed ammenities. Well, don't you know fire consumed this beauty, too! It was on a popular corner that still buzzes with activity today.
Click here to see what stands there today.
On This Day in History
On This Day in 1921
Stories by Jeff LaHurd
A Sarasota Romance
Journals of Yesteryear
Worcester Home on Bird KeyAt the beginning of this century, Bird Key was a small island in Sarasota Bay, rising only a few feet above the surrounding shallow grass flats. When Thomas Martin and Davie Lindsay Worcester began to build on the Key in 1911, they dredged a channel through the grass flats to their dock and used the dredged material as fill to raise the level of the land. That was the first of a number of actions over the next sixty years that significantly altered the key and surrounding bay.
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