“I was born here, but it’s a funny story. There was no maternity ward at Cape Coral Hospital at the time so I was born in an ambulance in the Lee Memorial parking lot. They had to call an ambulance because all of the rush hour traffic was going over the Caloosahatchee Bridge, which was one ...
“When I came to Cape Coral in 1968 the first place we moved to was on Shelly Parkway off of Del Prado Boulevard — and that was the boondocks. That’s where the bus would turn around; we were at the end of the bus line. I rode my bike, or walked, or hitchhiked anywhere I needed to go around ...
“Winters treated my father quite bad due to illness, so what kind of motivated us as a child to move was warm weather. We flew to Fort Myers, of course, when I was 15 and looked around. The Realtor thankfully asked if we wanted to go over the river to look as well and we did. “We built in ...
“Cape Coral in the ‘90s was definitely a place where kids seemed to always be playing outside; whether it be riding bikes, hanging out in a tree house, swimming, going to the Yacht Club beach, or just playing in the street. “I lived on a small lake for some time, so I honestly spent a ...
A lot has happened in 50 years since the city of Cape Coral’s incorporation, and it’s safe to say things have only just begun. From a large, undeveloped plot of land to a city of approximately 200,000 with over 400 miles of canals, Cape Coral has seen drastic change in a relatively ...
Editor’s note: This editorial was originally published by The Breeze in March of 2019. As Cape Coral marks its 50th anniversary, we are again a city at the crossroads — this time big and booming, but still only half developed in terms of available land and projected population. Just as a ...
