DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Cypress Gardens
Opened along the banks of Winter Haven’s Lake Eloise by Dick and Julie Pope in 1936, Cypress Gardens added “Southern Belle” posers in 1940 who became as famous as the flowers.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Kalamazoo Mall
Two blocks of Burdick Street were closed and reconstructed with mall-like street furniture, water features, flower beds, trees and grass in an effort to reinvigorate a retail district actively being siphoned off to the suburbs.
DR. PATRICK’S POSTCARD ROADSIDE: Streamline Hotel
The Streamline opened in 1941 as if a Miami Beach-Moderne hotel was dropped 260 miles north in Daytona.