As you walked through the Cape Coral Yacht Club doors Friday night, you were transported back in time. Classic music of a bygone decade blared while the dance floor was packed with tie-dye, tassels, and groovy moves. It was a special occasion. The Yacht Club was celebrating its 60th ...
The Cape Coral Museum of History honored the Cape Coral Yacht & Racquet Club’s 60th anniversary with a dinner and '60s-style dance party on Friday. Sponsored by the Gunterberg Charitable Foundation, the event also featured various speakers who shared the Yacht Club's history while the ...
The Cape Coral Yacht Club is one of 39 parks in the city system, with seven more community and neighborhood parks on the way. A look at how many of the other parks got their names: Burton Memorial Park J. Chandler Burton was elected to Cape Coral’s first city council in 1970, winning the ...
Native Americans, settlers and ranchers once walked and worked the land which was to become Cape Coral. The area’s history is packed with key turning points in the community’s development: 1920s Brothers Jacob and Hoge Blackley get 160 acres of land in Cape Coral from federal government ...
In August 1970, nearly 4,000 Cape Coral voters went to the polls with one key issue on their mind - to approve incorporation, or not. While the vote was close, Cape Coral was to become a city. The final tally was 2,067 to 1,798.Way back then, as compared today, there were few residences, few ...
With a growing population approaching 15,000 and general concerns that the Lee County government was not meeting the city's needs and services, Cape Coral residents decided in the late 1960s that it was time for the city to become incorporated."Cape Coral was the dream of the Rosen Brothers, ...
(Editor's note: The following items were taken directly from the headlines published in The Cape Coral Breeze from 1969-1974)1969 July - Population tops 12,000 July - Formal incorporation talks begin November - Committee recommends incorporation December - Population nearly 13,5001970 February ...
(Editor's note: The following information was provided by the Cape Coral City Clerk's office.)Cape Coral's Mayors Paul Fickinger - 12/70 to 01/73 Chandler Burton - 01/73 to 05/74 Herman Horton - 05/74 to 11/75 Don Graf - 11/75 to 11/77 Lyman Moore - 11/77 to 10/80 Bernie Langguth - 11/80 to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
