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Woody’s Way

  • May 18, 2023
  • John Dolen
If there were such a thing as a Fort Lauderdale Entertainers Hall of Fame, Woody Woodbury would be the top inductee. The star of stage and screen – the stage…
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A City at War

  • April 27, 2023
  • John Dolen
World War II wasn’t fought in Fort Lauderdale – but it got closer than you might think. It was the winter of 1939, and Fort Lauderdale’s merchants and hoteliers had…
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One Day in Spring

  • March 29, 2023
  • John Dolen
You didn’t need Eddie and Liz money to enjoy luxuries like the Yankee Clipper Luau Buffet, a canal home with a sodded lawn, and the comic stylings of Woody Woodbury.…
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Fort Before Resort

  • February 16, 2023
  • John Dolen
The actual forts that gave Fort Lauderdale its name – there were three, all named “Fort Lauderdale” – were located in some of today’s most prime real estate. But back…
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Hitting All the High Notes

  • January 18, 2023
  • John Dolen
James A. Dallas Sr. – Jimmie to his friends – loved music, valued education and built community. If you’ve had occasion to take the Brightline train and use the adjacent…
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The Big Blow

  • December 29, 2022
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Not long after we on the southeast coast of Florida were breathing a sigh of relief as Hurricane Ian missed us, our reprieve turned to horror as destruction on the…
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Welcome to the Show

  • October 28, 2022
  • John Dolen
Today’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is a multi-day spectacle. Its earliest iterations were distinctly more humble affairs. The first year that Fort Lauderdale and the term “boat show” were…
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Oceanfront Property

  • October 13, 2022
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After starting out a river town, Fort Lauderdale became a beach town – but it didn’t happen overnight. It’s not good when a man invests in a Fort Lauderdale Beach…
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The Swindle and the Sand

  • September 29, 2022
  • John Dolen
It might surprise current residents to know that in the early days of Fort Lauderdale, the beaches – our prized treasure – had little appeal to settlers. The beaches were…
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The Woman Who Saw the Future

  • August 25, 2022
  • John Dolen
Fort Lauderdale was not yet a town, and what would become Miami barely existed, but Mary Brickell saw the potential for her own vast landholdings and the rest of the…

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