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Weeki Wachee Mermaids
Vickers, Lu; Georgiadis, Bonnie
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Description for Weeki Wachee Mermaids
A focus on the photography and photographers that made Weeki Wachee Springs an iconic tourist destination of Florida. Num Pages: 139 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; AJC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 254 x 18. Weight in Grams: 680.
In the postwar explosion of domestic tourism, Weeki Wachee spring offered the quintessential vacation fantasy, a city of colourful mermaids in a natural crystal spring right off the West Coast highway in a sparsely inhabited Florida. In those early days, the mermaids had to stand alongside the highway to flag travellers down, but once word of their charms got out, travellers headed south to playgrounds in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa found Weeki Wachee a tantalising detour from the gruelling two-lane road connecting vacationland with the work-a-day world to the north. Vickers shows how that local novelty became a stellar ... Read more
In the postwar explosion of domestic tourism, Weeki Wachee spring offered the quintessential vacation fantasy, a city of colourful mermaids in a natural crystal spring right off the West Coast highway in a sparsely inhabited Florida. In those early days, the mermaids had to stand alongside the highway to flag travellers down, but once word of their charms got out, travellers headed south to playgrounds in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa found Weeki Wachee a tantalising detour from the gruelling two-lane road connecting vacationland with the work-a-day world to the north. Vickers shows how that local novelty became a stellar ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813044309
SKU
V9780813044309
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About Vickers, Lu; Georgiadis, Bonnie
Lu Vickers is the author of Breathing Underwater; Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids; and Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wodnerland. Bonnie Georgiadis is a former Weeki Wachee mermaid who lives in Tarpon Springs, Florida.
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