Growing up in Cape Coral as the city itself grew from a vision to the largest municipality between Tampa and Miami was a experience. "Cape kids" who now are taking their grandkids to the Yacht Club beach grew up in a close-knit community where life centered around not only that very same ...
From the early years of Cape Coral most from the headlines of the Cape Coral Breeze. Advertisements for available land for sale in Cape Coral were published across the U.S. starting in January 1958. In April 1958, the Kenny Swartz family became the first "official" residents of Cape Coral. In ...
(Editor's note: Cape Coral was incorporated in 1970. Here's a glimpse of the headline news items from that year published in The Cape Coral Breeze.)January Ground broken for 850-seat movie theater Gulf American now GAC Properties Harry James, band perform at Country Club Toll on Cape Bridge ...
One family helped shape Cape Coral into what it is today by contributing one of the first businesses to the city in the early 1960s.Elmer Tabor moved to Cape Coral in 1960 from West Virginia with his family. He said after his grandfather retired to the area in 1957, his family began to spend ...
Although the city of Cape Coral is only 45 years old, it has a number of landmarks - locations that stand out in people's minds as having been here for "a long time. "The Cape Coral Yacht Club, the Iwo Jima statue, Big John and the Cape Coral Shopping Plaza it towers over, City Hall, Cape ...
You can count on your fingers how many people are still here from when the city of Cape Coral was started.Mary Harborn is one of them, working as a broker/ salesperson for the developers who created the community in the late 1950s and becoming one of the city's first residents.Never in her wildest dreams did she think that this blank canvas of a brand-new pre-platted town would become the burgeoning city of 160,000 people it has become today."It's hard to believe what it was then and what it has become. When I was a broker there they sold a house for $35,000," Harborn said. "At the time ...
