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Around Boynton Beach (FL) (Postcard History)
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by Janet DeVries
Sales Rank: 477424
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Discount: 20 %
List Price: $19.99
$15.99
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 128 pages
Published by: Arcadia Publishing November 22, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0738543284
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0738543284
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6.3 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
Named for an early entrepreneur who arrived by boat in 1894, the tiny settlement of Boynton Beach emerged around the luxury hotel Maj. Nathan S. Boynton built on the beach. This enterprise brought carpenters, truck farmers, and railroad workers. Pineapple plantations, tomato fields, and citrus groves flourished. Shell shops, drift fishing, roadside fruit stands, and motor courts transformed the landscape. In Postcard History Series: Around Boynton Beach, author Janet DeVries uses more than 200 postcards from her own collection and others to show a carefree lifestyle long gone. Featured are picture postcards, some over 100 years old, of Boynton Beach and neighboring Briny Breezes, Ocean Ridge, Hypoluxo, and Gulf Stream.
About The Author
Janet DeVries is archivist and curator of collections at the Boynton Beach City Library and a trustee for the Boynton Beach Historical Society. In 2005, DeVries coauthored Images of America: Boynton Beach with M. Randall Gill. A portion of the author's proceeds from this book will benefit the Schoolhouse Children's Museum.
Reader Reviews
Boynton Beach was such a great place to live and grow up in the 50's, 60's and 70's and Janet DeVries has captured the special feeling of the time very well with her unique depiction of history through post cards. I learned more history of my home town through her book than any other way I can imagine. It was obvious reading her captions on pictures that she had done a great deal of research and that she actually likes the place she is writing about. Her passion for Florida small town history is showing on every page. Read it, put it on your coffee table and enjoy.
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