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A behind-the-scenes look at what the filming of Cecil B. DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth" in the 1950s was really like.
07/21/2015 By Larry Kelleher
Step inside the Tucker treehouse, built in 1934 in Myakka.
06/30/2015 By Larry Kelleher
In this week's Vintage Sarasota installment, we tak ea look at Englewood's historic Dearborn Street.
06/23/2015 By Larry Kelleher
Electricity was often unreliable in the early years of Florida Power and Light.
05/18/2015 By Larry Kelleher
His photographs of Sarasota helped put our city on the map.
05/06/2015 By Larry Kelleher
The dredge, in years past, was a major instrument of change in Sarasota.
04/22/2015 By Larry Kelleher
John Ringling himself hired the band.
03/13/2015 By Larry Kelleher
Mrs. C.V.S. (Rose) Wilson, Sarasota Times publisher, made it her mission to get the word out.
02/24/2015 By Larry Kelleher
The rerouting of U.S. 41, and its effect on Sarasota's bayfront, caused turmoil in the 1950s.
09/30/2014 By Larry Kelleher
In this Vintage Sarasota post, we explore the history of the Amish and Mennonite communities in Sarasota.
09/19/2014 By Larry Kelleher
In our latest Vintage Sarasota post, we explore the history of aviation in our region.
09/09/2014 By Larry Kelleher
In this week's Vintage Sarasota post, we remember the Atlantic Coast Railway.
08/29/2014 By Larry Kelleher
In this week's Vintage Sarasota post, we explore the history of Sarasota's fishing industry.
08/22/2014 By Larry Kelleher
In the 1930s, the city bought a $15,000 tract of land that would become the Sarasota Civic Center.
08/15/2014 By Larry Kelleher
Baseball legend Ted Williams was a fixture in Sarasota.
08/07/2014 By Larry Kelleher
The historic Mira Mar auditorium in downtown Sarasota was crucial to the city's growth in the early 20th century.
07/29/2014 By Larry Kelleher
In the early years of this century, before bridges connected the keys to the mainland, a favorite place to have a picnic was "Uncle Ben" Stickney's.
07/21/2014 By Larry Kelleher
St. Martha Catholic Church began as one of a number of mission outposts served by Jesuit priests from Tampa.
07/11/2014 By Larry Kelleher
The Sarasota County Anti-Mosquito Program finally became a reality in 1945.
06/26/2014 By Larry Kelleher
Early in Sarasota municipal history, several city councils wanted a channel dredged from the Gulf of Mexico to Sarasota Bay.
06/16/2014 By Larry Kelleher
