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Playland -- Seattle's Amusement Park (1930-1961)
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The appeal of the Keys as an exotic destination had only been bolstered by their newfound accessibility, so much so that Franklin Roosevelt had thought it a worthy expenditure of WPA funds to complete a highway link between Grassy Key and the Matecumbes, thereby making it even easier for Americans to find a part of paradise for themselves. What eff
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Following the war, the Southernmost City once again became a thriving tourist destination, and though now the pirates and the wreckers are gone, as are the turtle-raising corrals and the sponge divers and the cigar factories and the Cuban rollers and their lectors, who read newspapers and novels aloud while they worked, and the blustery big-game-hu
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