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Florida's Miracle Strip

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736205
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Florida's Miracle Strip written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, tourists have flocked to Florida's northwest Gulf Coast and sun and fun spots at Panama City Beach, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola Beach. Every year those visitors number in the millions. For those who long to recall how the vacationland appeared thirty, forty, or even fifty years ago, Tim Hollis has written Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast. In a style that informs and entertains, Hollis describes the rise of early developments, such as Long Beach Resort, and major tourist attractions, such as the Gulfarium and the Miracle Strip Amusement Park. With heartfelt nostalgia and a dose of tongue-in-cheek, he reminisces on the motels and tourist cottages; the restaurants, such as Captain Anderson's and Staff's; the elaborate miniature golf courses, such as Goofy Golf and its many imitators. He takes a special delight in recovering the memories of those quirky businesses that now exist only in faded photographs and aging postcards, such wacky tourist traps as Castle Dracula, Petticoat Junction, Tombstone Territory, and the Snake-A-Torium. In the book, Hollis examines how this area became known as the "Miracle Strip," and how the local chambers of commerce got so tired of that image that the name gradually fell into disuse. The book is illustrated with a profusion of vintage photos and advertisements, most of which have not been seen in print since their original appearances. For the nostalgia lover, the snowbird, the tourist seeking yesteryear, Florida's Miracle Strip: From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast will be a welcome traveling companion.

FLORIDA'S MIRACLE STRIP

Author : TIM. HOLLIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628465556
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book FLORIDA'S MIRACLE STRIP written by TIM. HOLLIS and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Attractions of Florida's Miracle Strip

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439674302
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Lost Attractions of Florida's Miracle Strip written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the early 1950s, the 130 miles of Florida coastline stretching from Panama City to Pensacola were branded as the Miracle Strip. Between those cities, oddities sprang up: goofy miniature golf courses, neon-bedecked motels, reptile farms and attractions that sought to re-create environments ranging from the South Pacific to the ghost towns of the Old West. In total, it was a marketing effort that worked brilliantly. Tourists flocked to the Strip, and now they can return. Author Tim Hollis presents a colorful array of these now-vanished sights, from the garish Miracle Strip Amusement Park to such oddities as Castle Dracula and the Museum of the Sea and Indian.

A Miracle Strip

Author : Arturo's Studio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780966788525
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book A Miracle Strip written by Arturo's Studio and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial history of Fort walton Beach, Florida and surrounding area.

The Miracle Strip

Author : Nancy Bartholomew
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466856920
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Miracle Strip written by Nancy Bartholomew and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sexy Stripper-Sleuth Bares It All to Catch a Cold-Blooded Killer in The Miracle Strip by Nancy Bartholomew The whip-smart Sierra Lavotini is the hottest act on Panama City's strip scene. She's the headliner at the bare-all bar, the Tiffany Club. Besides her bodacious business, Sierra's life is fairly simple. And that's the way she likes it. But when a good friend, Denise, seeks her help, Sierra's life takes a murderous turn. Seems Denise's furry friend Arlo has just been "dognapped." From the pricey ransom note, Sierra figures there's much more to this case than meets the eye. And her hunch proves correct when a quick trip to Denise's apartment reveals a fresh corpse. Sierra can't shake the feeling that her friend isn't telling her the whole story--especially after Denise turns up missing and the body count continues to rise. Determined to reveal the naked truth, Sierra tackles this steamy caper head on, digging in her stiletto heels until the dangerous job is done.

Dixie before Disney

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617033742
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Dixie before Disney written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selling the Sunshine State

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813032665
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Selling the Sunshine State written by Tim Hollis and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than a century, Florida has thrived on its image as an exotic playground. The state was an early innovator in tourism marketing, with fun, colorful, evocative print advertisements designed to reinforce the state's selling points: beautiful weather, clear waterways, citrus, and unique man-made attractions." "Selling the Sunshine State is a scrapbook of bygone brochures, postcards, souvenirs, and photos, all designed to lure new guests and residents to the peninsula. Avid Floridiana collector and cultural historian Tim Hollis's personal collection forms the heart of the nearly 500 color images herein. This lovingly assembled book is arranged according to the state's traditional tourism department regions, such as the Miracle Strip, the Big Bend, and the Gold Coast. This fascinating book opens a window to the lost attractions and sometimes shocking appeals made in promotional material created from the 1920s through the 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.

Panama City Beach

Author : Jan Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738517001
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Panama City Beach written by Jan Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the world's most beautiful beaches for its sugar white sand and emerald blue-green waters, Panama City Beach has, until recently, remained one of Florida's undiscovered treasures. First documented by Spanish explorers in the 1500s and later by the English, the region remained unsettled because of its inaccessibility and marauding renegade inhabitants. At a time when property was valued according to the crops it could grow, the beach was dismissed as a "no man's land" unsuitable for habitation. The early 1930s and the Hathaway Bridge, connecting Panama City Beach to the mainland, marked its "discovery" and the beginning of area tourism.

Drag Strip

Author : Nancy Bartholomew
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466856912
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Drag Strip written by Nancy Bartholomew and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philadelphia Inquirer named Nancy Bartholomew's first Sierra Lavotini novel, The Miracle Strip, one of the year's best mysteries and Romantic Times calls Sierra "a magnificent, take-no-prisoners heroine." Now, in Drag Strip, the exotic dancer again proves herself a pro as she strips down to her G-string and searches for a killer... The only thing hotter than the supercharged engines at the Dead Lakes Motor Speedway is the special appearance by Sierra and her friend Ruby Diamond. But before the day ends, Sierra will be pinched black and blue, seeing red when she spots her cop-boyfriend kissing another woman-and shocked white when she stumbles upon Ruby's dead body. Now, to catch a killer, Sierra must risk her hide and-even more dangerous- expose her vulnerable heart...

Hi There, Boys and Girls!

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604738193
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Hi There, Boys and Girls! written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ain't that a Knee-slapper

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604739533
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Ain't that a Knee-slapper written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hee-hawing history of comedic performers from the golden age of radio through The Dukes of Hazzard

Glass Bottom Boats & Mermaid Tails

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811732666
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Glass Bottom Boats & Mermaid Tails written by Tim Hollis and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessential roadside book recounts how Florida's natural wonders were first developed as tourist attractions.

Wish You Were Here

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813036830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by Tim Hollis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For most of the state's existence, Florida's economy has been driven by tourism and tourists. And after a carefree day on the beach, they need a place to sleep and eat. Wish You Were Here is a nostalgic look back at the days when a clever slogan ("Sleep to the Song of the Surf"), a pink-and-aqua paint job, a swimming pool, and air-conditioned rooms--combined with aggressive advertising through postcards, brochures, magazines, billboards, placemats, and neon signs--were the keys to capturing the tourists' dollars. Tim Hollis began collecting this memorabilia in the 1960s, when he travelled with his parents on vacation in Florida. Arranged like a scrapbook, his lighthearted review of the most interesting and unusual hotel, motel, and restaurant advertising will make you remember childhood vacations fondly--or wonder why anyone would have ever eaten or slept there. The nearly five hundred color images are accompanied by humorous captions. They depict unique mom-and-pop motels, early advertising from hotel chains, and countless pirate-themed seafood restaurants. The book is organized around the traditional tourism regions of the state, from the Gulf Coast's Miracle Strip to the Keys' Paradise Islands. So sit back, enjoy the trip, and please don't kick the back of the driver's seat"--

Florida

Author : Christine Schutt
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810151502
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Florida written by Christine Schutt and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting - and haunted -first novel by the celebrated author of Nightwork.

Dream State

Author : Diane Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416589570
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Dream State written by Diane Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and she's ready to tell them. Like the time her cousin state Senator Luther Tucker wrapped his Caddy around a tree, allegedly with a jug of moonshine on the seat next to him. Or how cousin Susan Branford was given an African girl for her eighth birthday. Or the time when cousin Enid Broward was made the May Queen of 1907, even though her daddy the governor shocked the state by trying to drain the entire Everglades. Roberts' ancestors helped settle Florida, kill off its pesky Indians, enslave some of its inhabitants, clear its forests, lay its train tracks, and pave its roads, all the time weaving themselves into the very fabric of this dangling chad of a state. With a storyteller's talent for setting great scenes, Roberts lays out the sweeping history of eight geberations of Browards and Bradfords, Tuckers anf Robertses, even as she Forest Gumps them into situations with more historically familiar names. Whether it's the American court of Catherine de Médicis, the Tallahassee court of Katherine Harris, Henry Flagler's boardroom -- not to mention his bedroom -- or Jeb Bush's statehouse, you're likely to find a branch or a root of the Roberts family growing entangled nearby. Starting in the recent past with the botched presidential election of 2000, Roberts introduces the many sides of the debate, coincidentally peopled with cousins both kissing and close. She then goes back to Florida's first inhabitants, showing how this alluring peninsula many called a paradise played a role in the destiny of those who settled there. Following their colorful progress up to the present, she renders them all with a deep, familial affection. Florida has forced itself into the collective American unconscious with its messed-up elections, anthrax scares, shark attacks,boat lifts, snowbirds, and the Bush dynasty. While exposing the real people whom Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard have been fictionalizing for years, Dream State ultimately reveals the cogs and wheels that make the state tick.

Lost Attractions of Alabama

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467141208
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Lost Attractions of Alabama written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey along with the king of nostalgia, Tim Hollis, for a tour of lost attractions of northern, central and southern Alabama. Alabama has had an enviable success rate when it comes to tourist attractions, with some that date back to the 1930s still drawing crowds today. But many others have come and gone, sometimes leaving little evidence of their existence. Join Alabama native Tim Hollis as he revisits iconic attractions such as Canyon Land Park and Sequoyah Caverns, the floral clock at Birmingham's Botanical Gardens and the traffic safety torch held aloft by Vulcan, the iron man. Many Gulf Coast attractions are gone, including Styx River Water World and Spooky Golf, but the memories remain.

Mouse Tracks

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496851277
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Mouse Tracks written by Tim Hollis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world there are grandparents, parents, and children who can still sing ditties by Tigger or Baloo the Bear or the Seven Dwarves. This staying power and global reach is in large part a testimony to the pizzazz of performers, songwriters, and other creative artists who worked with Walt Disney Records. Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records chronicles for the first time the fifty-year history of the Disney recording companies launched by Walt Disney and Roy Disney in the mid-1950s, when Disneyland Park, Davy Crockett, and the Mickey Mouse Club were taking the world by storm. The book provides a perspective on all-time Disney favorites and features anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographies of the artists who brought Disney magic to audio. Authors Tim Hollis and Greg Ehrbar go behind the scenes at the Walt Disney Studios and discover that in the early days Walt Disney and Roy Disney resisted going into the record business before the success of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" ignited the in-house label. Along the way, the book traces the recording adventures of such Disney favorites as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Cinderella, Bambi, Jiminy Cricket, Winnie the Pooh, and even Walt Disney himself. Mouse Tracks reveals the struggles, major successes, and occasional misfires. Included are impressions and details of teen-pop princesses Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills, the Mary Poppins phenomenon, a Disney-style "British Invasion," and a low period when sagging sales forced Walt Disney to suggest closing the division down. Complementing each chapter are brief performer biographies, reproductions of album covers and art, and facsimiles of related promotional material. Mouse Tracks is a collector's bonanza of information on this little-analyzed side of the Disney empire. Learn more about the book and the authors at www.mousetracksonline.com.