Title:
Quintessential Sarasota : stories and pictures from the 1920s to the 1950s
Author:
Edition:
History Press ed.
Publication Information:
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2004.
Physical Description:
93 p.: illus.; 231/2 cm.
Contents:
Downtown -- The American Legion War Memorial -- Selling Sarasota, 1920s- style -- The Czecho-Slovakian Band -- WJBB : "the voice of the semi-tropics" -- A short history of Sarasota tourism -- The prohibition era -- The John Ringling Towers -- The Ringling Causeway -- The Ringling School of Art and Design -- The Founders Circle of the Sarasota Garden Club -- The Ritz and Florida theaters -- The Lido Casino -- The greatest show on earth -- The U.S.S. Sarasota -- The winter quarters -- The Smack -- The Plaza Restaurant -- The war years -- The Sara de Sota Pageant -- Bird Key -- Bits and pieces.
