We made one or two cents a paper and never sold over twenty or thirty. It was a beautiful, yellow brick building and our teacher was a very fine young woman named Miss Leola Leifeste. We decided that since they had so many, they wouldn’t miss a few, so one day we sneaked into the yard and loaded our pockets with mangoes and our arms with big coconuts.
In one terrific gust of wind, the upper part of the house almost parted from the lower half. We could see the timbers rise, then settle back again. Track Hurricane Irma.
We were halfway back to the sidewalk, when we were startled by a voice from the front porch. Several months later, I found out that I had been hawking papers to the editors of the Evening Press.”.Elva and her sons toughed it out in Fort Myers for 7 months, until Elva found a better job in Sarasota. The price of admission had gone from 15 to 25 cents.© 2020 www.news-press.com.
There was no running water except what dribbled from the rain water tank into the kitchen sink.Palm Beach Boulevard had just been asphalted out as far as the newest subdivision, Russell Park. I’d give them the full sales pitch, telling them how superior the Evening Press was to the Tropical News. To advertise it, they were having a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
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Biggs Saved his Life",Scroll down to see large scans of the front and back of the postcard. The safest place Miss Elva could think of for us was under the bed, so under the bed Davis, Bill and I went.
Live Twitter feed and interactive tracking map of Hurricane Irma. After Bill and I got a job selling newspapers, we saved enough money to go to the best picture show in town, the Arcade Theater. Shows there cost 15 cents.About two months after we arrived in Fort Myers, Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush" came to the Arcade. During the post-World War I Florida real estate boom of the 1920s, the population of Fort Myers increased six times over. Bill and I had never tasted coconuts or mangoes. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program,1925 FLORIDA HURRICANE Photo RPPC Postcard "The Way Wm.
Mother didn’t doubt that Florida would rise again, but she determined that would do it without her and her three children. It seemed funny not having a book satchel slung over our shoulders, but we were all in favor of it.One of the most interesting things we did in Fort Myers was sell the Evening Press on the streets every afternoon after school. We thought she was the nicest woman we ever met.
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A little farther out was the Elks Club and across the street from it was a beautiful two-story white frame house that had the prettiest yard I had ever seen. Mother got Bill and me all dressed up with charcoal mustaches and taught us how to shuffle and swagger like Chaplin.
She was 32 and single, with three sons to support. On mobile devices, click on,USPS First Class Mail International / First Class Package International Service.Scroll down to see large scans of the front and back of the postcard. We were in the eye of the storm; in about 20 minutes the wind returned, and for almost an hour more the hurricane raged.When we thought it safe to go outside, we went out to see the damage. Many families were having to get groceries from the top shelves of stores by rowboat. All rights reserved.Fort Myers native Florence Keen Sansom's legacy of art,A look back: Fort Myers, the gladiolus capital,Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Stay on top of the weather this hurricane season with Florida Today and USA TODAY Network's Hurricane Hub. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. All electricity was off, the telephone lines were down, and hundreds of trees were uprooted. Please take a careful look at the scans, and email us with any specific questions.Copyright © 1995-2020 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. It was painted snowy white, and only millionaires stayed there.
Bill followed with his family, and Bill and Berry’s kids went to Saturday morning westerns at the Arcade Theater. Optimistic businessmen predicted that it would pass and Florida would boom again.
The wind raged with a low moaning sound. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.Something went wrong. As we lay there, we could hear the timbers creak in the house.
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