Title:
Weeki Wachee, city of mermaids : a history of one of Florida's oldest roadside attractions
Author:
Publication Information:
Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, c2007.
Physical Description:
xvi, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 x 27 cm
Series:
The Florida history and culture series
Florida history and culture series.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-288) and index.
Contents:
Florida : a watery dreamscape -- The human fish -- Wakulla : fit palace for Neptune -- Transforming myth into kitsch -- The forties and fifties : Weeki Wachee's glamour shot -- The sixties : from Elvis to Don Knotts -- The seventies : the era of the mouse -- The eighties : the age of acquisition -- The nineties : from the encyclopedia of bad taste to the tails of yesteryear -- The merlinnium : a return to the sublime.
