A juke box, pool tables, ping pong, chess, sandwiches and refreshments, dances and good conversation. Everything a teenager could want was found at Cape Coral’s original youth center. Called the “Teen Key Club,” the teenagers gathered in a 75-foot by 60-foot building — now the Tony ...
When the Cape Coral Yacht & Racquet Club opened in 1962, one of the perks was Cape property owners received a free three-year membership to the club. That membership entitled residents to the clubhouse facilities, plus the game and dining rooms. “Many families spend small fortunes ...
Before there were 200,000 people. Before there were 400 miles of canals. Before two bridges connected Cape Coral to the rest of the world, a nearly almost untouched piece of wilderness existed where mangroves and palmettos thrived, hogs and turkeys ran wild, and Native Americans and settlers ...
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 ...
The Yacht Club is considered the first large entertainment, recreation and family and group gathering destination in Cape Coral. Here are other historic firsts: • First homes: Ground broken on first homes on Nov. 4, 1957, with lot prices ranging from $900 to $3,390. • First residents: ...
Just up the road from the Cape Coral Yacht Club are other historic reminders of the community’s beginnings. Between Riverside and Flamingo drives are the first eight homes built in 1958. When the Rosen brothers — Leonard and Jack — purchased 1,181 acres for $678,000 on land that ...
