| Photo about 1959. With an unmistakable shape of the Canal, one immediately knows that this photograph is of the construction of FLORAMAR TERRACE, facing West to the Gulf. U.S. 19 bisects this photograph in the middle, North to South (left to right in the photo). In the center of the photograph, we can see the finishing touches on Jasmine Heights Unit 1, and the commencing of Units 2 and 3, along Marine Parkway (right center of photo, before its intersection of Grand Boulevard). Tangerine Drive commences at Cactus Drive to the West, and terminates at a very rural Grand Boulevard. Once across Grand Boulevard, and a little South on Grand, where the forested area and the Tree Farm are lined up, would become Cecelia Drive. The small oblong building on Grand, on the extreme NorthEast corner where the Tree Farm is located, south of Tangerine Drive, is still there, having been built in 1945. This was part of the vast O.J. Harvey Estate holdings and is now the site of the James M. Marlowe Elementary Shool. The undeveloped property West of this location, would become TWIN LAKES VILLAGE CONDOs, erected in 1971. The property on the lower right of this photograph would become part of the C. E. Crafts Development. A relatively undeveloped US19, as well as Shamrock Heights, had yet to be touched by the bulldozer, however within the next 5 years, all of that will change. Photo by Angelo Deciucies; caption by David A. Henry. |