This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Do You Remember Gulf Breeze Hotel and Venice Memories
Reflections on the Gulf Breeze Hotel in Venice during the fifties describe its refuge from growth, the patio cafe and lounge entertainment with Bob Cutting and Mert Place, the Cactus Candle Room, Sally Stubbs shop, cockeyed glass souvenirs by Dixie Barth, and local tenants like Jerry Hill and Sam Cutler.
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George Bernard Shaw
Sarasota
Gulf Breeze
Venice
Florida
Bob Cutting
Mert
Will Osdale
Bud Lawrence
Dot
Skip Giles
Sally
Bon Ton
Sally Stubbs
Bill
Dixie Barth
Dixie
Jerry Hill
Hill and Hill Plumbing
Grove Street
Britton’s Furniture
Tamiami Trail
Foremost Liquors
Jerry
Sam Cutler
Ronald Witmer
Jimmy Roundtree
Happy Lasson
Mason-Dixons
The
Gulf Coast