Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church will hold a Rally Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 26, on the church grounds at 19251 N Tamiami Trail in North Fort Myers. There will be food trucks, games, music from WAYFM and fellowship. The public is invited to come out and enjoy a day ...
Flashback 1970: The Baby Boomers all had been born.President Richard Millhouse Nixon was a few years away from stepping down and Spiro Agnew was vice president. Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate Scandal that led to Nixon's fall from grace were two years away.A stamp cost 6 cents, a gallon of milk was $1.15, gasoline 36 cents.Unemployment held steady at 3.5 percent and the Dow Jones reached a high of 842.Norman Greenbaum was crooning "Spirit in the Sky" and the song-of-the-year was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel."Love Story" raked in a whopping ...
On March 1, 1962, the Cape Coral Civic Association was formed. On April 2, 1962, when Cape Coral had the remarkable population of 1,605 people, the Cape Coral Civic Association, with 228 members, elected its first board of directors. The Cape Coral Civic Association is the oldest civic ...
Cape Coral may have started with only a handful of people, but through the years the community has seen growth and prosperity and a hard economic downturn.The pendulum has swung to the extremes.Lean times in recent years have lead to budget cuts when the construction boom came to a halt. People lost homes, businesses. Some longstanding businesses have had to cope with down-sizing while providing quality and great customer service.During the boom times the Cape, as it's called, saw tremendous growth, business expansion, people moving to the sleepy little town.Gloria Raso Tate and Bennett ...
Many people and organizations had a hand in forming Cape Coral.In December 1961, Robert H. Finkernagel Jr., came to the Cape. He was the managing director for Gulf American Land Corp. He was the manager of the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce at the time, his daughter, Ann Duffala said. He left ...
Paul Sanborn said he moved to Cape Coral on May 1, 1962, because he was offered a job to work for Gulf American Land Corporation as the assistant to the managing director."Our job was to work with the community and as the growth came we needed amenities," he said. "We did things when the ...
