We were there…
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A Breeze file photo from circa 1962 shows the Cape Coral Shopping Plaza in its infancy.
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Big John, one of Cape Coral’s most famous landmarks, is delivered and assembled as documented in this Breeze file photo from 1969.
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Construction of Cape Coral High School in 1978.
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Gulf Middle School gets its name engraved in a cement wall in 1981.
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Mariner High School under construction in 1986.
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Cape Coral City Councilman Tony Rotino is at center in this photo of the groundbreaking for an annex to the Tony Rotini Center, added in 1981.
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Cultural Park Theater is constructed circa 1990.
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Cape Coral City Council members and other officials take a tour of the under-construction Sun Splash Family waterpark circa 1991. BREEZE FILE PHOTO
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Del Prado Boulevard is expanded to six lanes in 1991.
The Breeze has covered the Cape for 60 years.