One family helped shape Cape Coral into what it is today by contributing one of the first businesses to the city in the early 1960s.Elmer Tabor moved to Cape Coral in 1960 from West Virginia with his family. He said after his grandfather retired to the area in 1957, his family began to spend ...
(Editor's note: Cape Coral was incorporated in 1970. Here's a glimpse of the headline news items from that year published in The Breeze.)January Ground broken for 850-seat movie theater Gulf American now GAC Properties Harry James, band perform at Country Club Toll on Cape Bridge reduced from ...
In 1957, a handshake symbolized a promise between LCEC manager Homer T. Welch Jr. and Gulf Guaranty Land and Title Company President Leonard Rosen to bring electricity to Cape Coral. Welch agreed to return Rosen's deposit for the cost to run electricity to the area after homes were built.In ...
(Editor's note: The following items were taken directly from the headlines published in The Cape Coral Breeze from 1969-1972)1969July - Population tops 12,000July - Formal incorporation talks beginNovember-Committee recommends incorporationDecember - Population nearly 13,5001970February - Bill ...
Paul Sanborn said he moved to Cape Coral on May 1, 1962, because he was offered a job to work for Gulf American Land Corporation as the assistant to the managing director."Our job was to work with the community and as the growth came we needed amenities," he said. "We did things when the ...
Clint Kelly, who turned 95 years old Wednesday, July 28, moved to Cape Coral in 1970, after staying in Miami for basic training for the U.S. military for nine months, along with visiting Lee County with his wife Evelyn, known as "Susie," for many years.Drafted at the age 28, Kelly stay in Miami ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cape Coral residents learned about the earliest days of the city during a presentation and luncheon Saturday afternoon at the Lake Kennedy Senior Center.The presentation, which began at 11 a.m., was given by Paul Sanborn and Elmer Tabor. Sanborn, president of the Cape Coral Historical Society ...
