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Florida History and Culture Ser.: Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids : A History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions by Lu Vickers (2007, Hardcover)

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In the postwar explosion of domestic tourism, Weeki Wachee Spring offered the quintessential vacation fantasy, a city of colorful mermaids in a natural crystal spring right off the West Coast highway in a sparsely inhabited 1947 Florida. Travelers headed south to playgrounds in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa found Weeki Wachee a tantalizing detour from the grueling two-lane road connecting vacationland with the work-a-day world to the north. Vickers and Dionne show how that local novelty became a stellar international attraction. Weeki Wachee and its featured attraction, mermaids, combined the allure of pinup girls with the wholesome talents of variety entertainers to create a daily schedule of underwater acts ranging from eating bananas and performing ballet to staging underwater musicals. For nearly 60 years, these mermaids with their underwater talents have attracted crowds of vacationers, film crews, and celebrities. Drawing on extensive archival research as well as interviews with dozens of mermaids and other park employees, Vickers traces the park's rise to prominence. Combined with Dionne's arrangement of 250 photos, the resulting work shows what it was like to be a mermaid at Weeki Wachee in its heyday.

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Publisher
University Press of Florida
ISBN-10
0813030412
ISBN-13
9780813030418
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57199163

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Book Title
Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids : a History of One of Florida's Oldest Roadside Attractions
Author
Lu Vickers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Folklore & Mythology, Special Interest / Amusement & Theme Parks
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Photography, Travel, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Length
7in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
10in.
Item Weight
40.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Gv1853.3.F62v53 2007
Reviews
"Lu Vickers has written a truly delicious, sparkling history of Florida's own mermaid city of Weeki Wachee, one of the greatest oldtime roadside attractions. Her prose is bright, sharp and funny; combined with the illustrations brilliantly compiled by Sara Dionne, it makes for a wonderful, vivacious, superbly researched but never dry saga of the regular girls who transformed themselves into swimming goddesses and the tiny hamlet which go so famous even Elvis came to pay court." -- Diane Roberts
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-028472
Dewey Decimal
791.06/80975971
Series
Florida History and Culture Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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