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Historic Photos of Florida Tourist Attractions (Historic Photos.)
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Historic Photos of Florida Tourist Attractions (Historic Photos.)
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by Steve Rajtar
Sales Rank : 1275617
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Hardcover: 216 pages
Publisher: Turner Pub Co January 1, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1596524170
ISBN-13: 978-1596524170
Product Dimensions:
10.2 x 10.1 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
Product Review
Turner Publishing has produced Historic Photos of Florida Tourist Attractions, a new coffee-table book, which offers a fun-filled look back at Central Florida attractions of yesteryear. Black-and-white photographs, from the State Archives of Florida and the Library of Congress, fill the pages. The accompanying text is by Steve Rajtar, a longtime Floridian who also has written books about history and hiking. --Orlandosentinel.com
Steve Rajtar's new book, Historic Photos of Florida Tourist Attractions, is so much fun. Each of the photos in this rich book offers a glimpse back into historic locations, while the captions provide additional details. Each image invites close examination and evokes feelings of wonder. The sheer number of these attractions and their history make it easy to see where the stage gets its varied and often notorious character. For many, it will stir up memories of family road trips where billboards promised possibilities of untold adventure at the very next exit. That offer of excitement has always been part of the allure of the Sunshine State. --Scott Leon, Orlando Arts Magazine
Tour Florida with these wonderful photos of the attractions which were here before Walt Disney World. You will see what curiosities brought in the tourists and their dollars decades before today's theme parks dominated the billboards and themselves became worldwide vacation destinations. --Accent On Tampa Bay Magazine
Tour Florida with these wonderful photos of the attractions which were here before Walt Disney World. You will see what curiosities brought in the tourists and their dollars decades before today's theme parks dominated the billboards and themselves became worldwide vacation destinations. --Accent On Tampa Bay Magazine
Product Description
Today, we're familiar with the major theme parks which charge families hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line for moments of thrills on technologically amazing rides. Florida, however, has been drawing tourists for centuries with simpler attractions which cost much less to view the animals or exhibits, or commune with nature. In Historic Photos of Florida Early Tourist Attractions, Steve Rajtar brings us back to the simpler ways early visitors enjoyed their time in the Sunshine State.
Tour the state with photos of the tourist attractions which were here before Walt Disney World, in the days when a row of antique cars sufficed and tourists did not require constant action. See the wax figures which amazed visitors long before the invention of audioanimatronic mannequins. See what curiosities brought in the tourists and their dollars decades before today's theme parks dominated the billboards and themselves became worldwide vacation destinations.
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