CELEBRATING PANAMA CITY BEACH`S 80TH

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Celebrating Panama City Beach’s 80th Birthday
Sunday, May 1, 2016
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Page | The News Herald | Sunday, May 1, 2016
Happy 80th Birthday
Happy 80 Birthday
PANAMA CITY BEACH
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By Mike Cazalas
Editor
Gideon Thomas had a vision 80 years ago and, as the story
goes, saw value in the sugary white sands of Panama City Beach
because he wasn’t there to grow vegetables, he saw it as fertile
soil for growing tourists.
We’re hard-pressed to imagine Thomas ever could’ve
envisioned how that would come to fruition and what started
with just over 100 acres of land he bought next to Long Beach
would bring Panama City Beach to where it is today as it
prepares to celebrate its 80th birthday.
To help commemorate the occasion The News Herald
produced this 40-page tab not with the intent of making it
the historical record of the Beach’s growth, but rather to share,
mostly through pictures, how the Beach developed through
the decades. Pictures at times more readily evoke memories
than words, and the pictures readers will enjoy in the following
pages hopefully will remind long-time residents of the Beach’s
roots and at the same time give newcomers a taste of what was.
We know what the Beach is now and most can recall “Miracle
Strip,” but there are things forgotten we hope to remind you
of today, venues that were once staples of Beach life and the
lifeblood of our local teens. We remember Miracle Strip easily
enough, but how many people remember Jungle Land or
Castle Dracula?
We hope everyone will join in the festivities Monday at the
County Pier — there is a schedule in this section for you — and
enjoy today’s trip down memory lane.
PCB’s 80th Birthday Party
Where: M.B. Miller/County Pier,
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When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, May 2
What: Enjoy live music, beach games,
a photo booth, a dance floor
Food and Drinks: Served 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Birthday Cake: Sliced and served at 1 p.m.
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PANAMA CITY BEACH — In the
1960s, A teenaged Kay Churchwell
hid behind the main stage of things,
but it didn’t stop the cowboys from
catching her by surprise, whisking
her over their shoulders and
lugging the damsel atop a horse to
finish the Ghost Town act.
A quarter-century earlier in
1936 when Panama City Beach was
founded, there were no such tourist
draws, but there was plenty of white
sand, blue water and dreams like
the one that led Gideon Thomas
to invest in the idea that “growing
tourists” was not only possible, it
would pay off financially.
By the ‘60s, Thomas was proven
correct and soon such acts were
common happenings at J.E.
Churchwell’s Long Beach Resort
— one of several small cities that
over the decades had become part
of incorporated Panama City Beach.
Churchwell purchased the 220-acre
property in the 1930s for $10,000
from widows of longtime owners
Happy 80th Birthday
surnames Sharpless and Brown,
and it became part of Panama City
Beach in the 1970s.
The beach had completed one
metamorphosis and would see
more in the decades to come.
“A lot hasn’t changed in the
macro sense,” said Bay County
Tourist Development Council
(TDC) spokesman David Demarest.
“You lose some attractions, other
attractions come in. The idea of a
family fun beach vacation, is always
going to include more than just the
beach.”
“Real. Fun. Beach.,” the beach’s
tagline, reflects the story of its
80-year history, which it will be
celebrating as a birthday party
Monday at the County Pier, 12213
Front Beach Road, from 10 a.m. to
3 p.m.
The Wild West theme was a
hit back as the Beach came to life
and memories linger even as new
attractions are planned. Minutes
away Leo Koplin’s Tombstone
Territory — named after a 1950s
American Western series aired on
ABC — also featured a train, gun
shooter acts and larger than life
attractions. Koplin also constructed
the beach’s first miniature golf
course, Goofy Golf.
“It was a fun way to grow up,”
said Churchwell, the great-niece of
J.E. Churchwell.
Perhaps like Thomas, the
developer of Panama City Beach
proper (104 acres next to Long
Beach Resort) and after whom
Thomas Drive is named, the idea of
selling sandy lots was not feasible to
families who thrived on agricultural
land. Tourism soothed a different
kind of need – one that has pressed
out Panama City Beach tourism
annually to become a leading
economic engine for Bay County.
Before the 1960s
Before the 1960s — before
television was in every home —
leisure wasn’t as wild on the beach.
In the 1930s and 40s, the
1,000-foot pier in front of Panama
City Beach Hotel, located where
Pineapple Willy’s Restaurant is
SEE 80 years | 5
80 years
of Real.
Fun. Beach.
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today, was the drawing
point for tourists who,
at that time, sought
the serenity of the
unobstructed beach view
and angling opportunities.
“As preschoolers in the
1950’s, my brother and I
reveled in our weekend
journeys to Biltmore Beach
on Thomas Drive,” said local
historian Kenny Redd and
manager of Facebook page
Old Panama City Beach.“I
recall the sand dunes along
Thomas Drive looking like
mountains.”
Claimed to be the
only marble channel in
the world, the jetties at
St. Andrew State Park
— formerly a military
reservation, which didn’t
open to the public until
1951 — were also built in
the 1930s.
A Facebook search for
“Old Panama City Beach”
reveals hundreds of photos
from the era – the popular
young adult club Hang Out,
Magic Forest, Shell Island,
angler escapades and an
array of black-and-white
aerial views of still waters
along the coast.
Spring Break
Be it the first local beach
club The Pavilion or perhaps
the 1950s Hang Out, by the
time Spring Break became
“a thing,” it was a party the
beach could handle and
another chapter in the
Beach’s history was about to
be written.
The first consistent group
of breakers to Panama City
Beach came during Alabama
Educators Association week
of Spring Break, which at
times matched with Spring
Break for many Georgia
colleges and made for many
weekends when, as former
Beach Police Chief Lee
Sullivan would put it,“The
island is full.”
And in the 1970s and
beyond, Spring Break
holiday in Florida was
an official sacrament for
students from all over –
something rumored to have
been inspired by 1960s
movie Where the Boys Are
SEE 80 years | 6
Special to The News Herald
An aerial view of Panama City Beach attractions around ’74-75. A fire burns at Jungle
Land’s volcano, as shown at the bottom right.
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set in central Florida.
MTV’s decision to broadcast live
from the beach in 1992 and 1993 put
the city on the national Spring Break
map. With an influx of hundreds of
thousands of curious college students,
usually creatively brandishing the youonly-live-once mentality, the beach
maintained Spring Break momentum
through the years.
Spring Break at Fort Lauderdale
and Daytona Beach was full-throttle
before Panama City Beach, but as it
died down to the south it continued
to grow along the Gulf Coast. In
more recent years ordinances were
introduced to tame the Spring Break
party and enhance the family image,
an effort that continues today.
Capt. Anderson’s Restaurant &
Waterfront Market opened in 1967.
Owned and operated by the Patronis
family, the Capt. Anderson’s is the
recipient of 16 Golden Spoons and
several top-tier seafood restaurant
awards.
Across the street came Hamilton’s,
which was a mainstay on the beach
until tornadoes spawned by Hurricane
Ivan in 2005 destroyed it. Just up the
street, was the Treasure Ship, and
much like the iconic entertainment
attractions a few miles to the west, the
site of what by all appearances was
a huge grounded ship turned into a
tourist favorite. It was destroyed by fire
in 2010.
Down the street, Schooners
appeared in 1985 and remains there
today, the “last local beach club” in the
Culinary Delights
open-air where a cannon is fired each
As the number of tourists grew,
night at sunset.
so did the number of stomachs that
And there, at the very west end
needed filling, and just as the Beach has
of the beach — miles past Angelo’s
developed a wide array of entertainment Steak Pit and “Gus” the bigger-than-life
attractions, restaurants catering to
bull that has been the centerpiece of
myriad tastes began to spring up and
who knows how many tourist photos,
soon became icons of their own.
arose the Board’s Head Restaurant and
Happy 80th Birthday
Tavern in 1978, a high-end fine dining
establishment that has maintained its
reputation ever since.
Condo Boom
A development boom in 2004 took
the Beach to a new level. Instead of
taking a glance of the beach scene
from the Miracle Strip Tower, tourists
could soak in the view at high-rise
condominiums.
Tourism had raised the tax base on
Panama City Beach and brought in
improvements along Thomas Drive.
With the introduction of development
companies like St. Joe Company and
Simon Property Group’s Pier Park,
condo fever took over.
Economic tides shift as well.
Though Thomas Drive improvements
continued, the 2006 recession nearly
halted coastal building. However, that
too has changed and more condos
are now planned.
Streets awash with mopeds, fourwheeled contraptions, carloads of
families, matched by waters awash
with Wave runners, swimmers, surfers
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This building is the first hotel on Panama City Beach. It was
constructed by Gideon Thomas in the early 30’s. There were several
turbines on the property, including one to pump fresh water.
and parasailers, all signal tourism
season. But even that is changing and
what was once a warm-weather event
has grown shoulders, with tourists
coming in year-round. What was once
almost a ghost town by Thanksgiving
welcomes tens of thousands for
special holiday events.
Bustling shopping centers, new
housing developments, schools and
city-instituted events remind us that
the Beach can be called home, and
homes change.
Eight decades into it, with several
waves of attractions, the sands are still
sugary and the fun is sweet as ever. Of
the millions who visit, they experience
more than just a beach, and feel such
an attraction that many end up calling
it home.
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A Partial PCB
Timeline
1936: Gideon Thomas opens his
resort for business
1946: Snake-a-Torium opens
(renovated in 1991, it becomes
ZooWorld)
1951: Back Beach Road
(Panama City Beach Parkway) is
constructed
1954: Fun-Land Arcade opens
1958: Goofy Golf opens
1960: Hathaway bridge
constructed (replaced in 2003)
1963: Miracle Strip
Amusement Park opens (closes
in 2004); Petticoat Junction
opens (closes 1984)
1965: Miracle Strip observation
tower opens (demolished in
1995)
1970: Gulf World Marine Park
opens
1975: The Hang Out destroyed
by Hurricane Eloise
1977: City of Panama City
Beach incorporates; adopts
charter in 1978
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1984: Pier 99 Lounge becomes
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BEACH BEGINNINGS
The beach had a very humble start...
Two ladies search
for shells at Shell
Island in the late
1800s.
Top left: Teenage girls pose on a platform, likely waiting for
the shuttle that ferried visitors to and from Shell Island.
Bottom left: Workmen in 1937 finish asphalt on the newly
constructed jetties, which formed the pass to St. Andrew
Bay. Above: Crowds gather at the Bay Line on Panama City
Beach.
BEACH BEGINNINGS
Sunday, May 1, 2016 | The News Herald | Page Patrons likely await a ferry for Shell Island.
Ferry was the only way to get to the beach
in 1890, the year this photo was taken.
A group of men relax on bik
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waterfront on Panama Ci
ty Beach.
The pass at St. Andrew State Park.
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ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
Panama City Beach
ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
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ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
Castle Dracula — 1976-1987
Center: A group poses
for a group photo on the
beach in front of Castle
Dracula.
Top right: Castle
Dracula is pictured in
1986 across the street
from Bay County Pier.
The attraction burned
down the following year.
Far bottom right:
Castle Dracula stands
out along the busy
mainroad.
Below: In this 1980s
photo, Cathy Dean
Walker’s sons sit
Frankenstein’s arms at
Castle Dracula.
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ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
Ghost
Town
These girls appeared in
a lot of the promotional
photos from the 60’s.
They’re boarding Tombstone
Territory’s ‘Iron Horse’
to begin their journey
to the western-themed
pioneer town that provided
entertainment for tourists.
The saloon at Tombstone Territory featured a first-rate stage show with talented musicians and dancers. There was
entertainment in the streets too. About every half hour some fame seeking gunslinger would test the local Sheriff’s
fast draw. The smell of gunpowder filled the street with a poignant sense of reality.
Top right and Above: An action-packed Wild West
act takes place at Ghost Town.
Left: Scanned from a September 1968 Florida Trend,
this photo shows Mr. J. E. Churchwell at Petticoat
Junction’s Ghost Town and Silver Spike Opera House
& Saloon.
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ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
Patrons await at a station at Petticoast Junction Amusement Park.
Below: Advertising for Petticoat Juntion is erected near Long
Beach Resort.
ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
The Tornado roller
coaster at Petticoat
Junction and
the Cannonball
Locomotives are
pictured.
1967
“Nation’s Fastest Roller Coaster” across the bottom
of Tornado’s signage, riders anxiously smile as they
take off on the ride at Petticoat Junction.
ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
Miracle Strip Amusement Park: 1963-2004
This snapshot was taken from the Top O’ the Strip tower
across the street from Miracle Strip. A ticket booth is
visible near the carousel. At this time, the tickets were 10
cents each and a ride on the Starlinercost 10 tickets.
Manufactured in Italy by the Bertazzon company, Musik
Express was one of MSAP’s most popular rides.
ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
JUNGLELAND: 1965-1981
Before Val Valentine constructed ‘Jungle Land’, Ross Allen had established ‘Ross Allen’s
Jungle Show’ on the property. E. Ross Allen (1908-1981) was an American herpetologist
and writer. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ross relocated to Florida with his family
when he was a teenager. As a young man, Allen made a hobby of capturing turtles,
snakes and other reptiles near his home in central Florida. He was nationally famous for
his Herpetology Institute at Silver Springs, Florida. However, his Jungle Show at PCB
was not as successful. It’s likely that visitors to PCB were already very familiar with the
critters he featured in his show.
Vincent E. ‘Val’ Valentine II is pictured above. His talent brought joy to the hearts of
young and old alike. He was the creator of ‘Jungle Land’ the attraction that was an icon
on Panama City Beach for many years. He was also well known as the Creative Director
at Miracle Strip Amusement Park and was responsible for the design and appearance of
almost everything there including the rides.
Saint Andrew State Park
ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
GOPHER RACES
Busy day at Saint Andrew State Park. This photo must
have been taken after the jetties (stone breakwater) was
in place, but before the pass was dredged in the early 60’s.
Where these folks are sunbathing is under water today.
The ‘Gopher Races’ were an annual July 4th event.
Churchwell Insurance Agency had a ‘gopher’ tortoise entered in the race. Mr. J.E. Churchwell is seen here with his
A woman stands with
entourage of tortoise racing enthusiasts.
surfing board in 1977 at
St. Andrew State Park.
SKY RIDE
HathawaY Bridge No. 2
Hathaway Bridge No. 2 at sunset. This photo taken just
before the bridge was removed. This bridge was built
in 1959 and replaced the original bridge that was built
in 1929. The first portion of the new bridge (No. 3) was
opened in 2003. Photo credit: Frank Mix.
Shipwreck island water park
GULF WORLD
Visitors to Shipwreck Island Water Park make their way up
the winding lines.
FUN-LAND
This happy couple appears very much as ease 200 feet
above Goofy Golf. The ‘Sky Ride’ at West Panama City
Beach was built in 1962 by the Von Roll engineering company. It was the only elevated vista for several years, until
the Miracle Strip Tower was constructed in 1966. It was
Guests at Gulf World Marine Park are seen here feeding a damaged beyond repair by Hurricane Eloise in 1975. It
stood idle for many years.
Bottlenose dolphin.
FUN-LAND Arcade and Snack Bar has been in business
for nearly 66 years and has served as one of the beach’s
main attractions.
ICONS & ATTRACTIONS
Pier at PIneapple Willy’s
WEdding at shipwreck
This is the 1000 foot pier that was once at Panama City Beach. A remnant remains today
at Pineapple Willy’s. This pier was constructed by Gideon Thomas in the early 30’s. Mr.
Thomas was a very forward thinking man. When he built the hotel, at the foot of this pier,
there was no electrical power or water utility available. Undaunted, he employed wind
turbines to provide electricity and water for his guests. If you zoom in, you can see a
banner, spelling “Panama City Beach”, hanging between two of the wind turbines.
World’s wettest wedding held in the wave pool at Shipwreck Island Water Park. Ron and
Cheryl Brown, groom and bride. John Hutt, Jr. performed the ceremony.
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Robinettes Sundries was PCB’s first gift shop and was located directly across the
street from Gideon Thomas’ Panama City Beach Hotel.
Beach Party’s building became home to Schooners in 1987.
Beach Club, one of the
beaches first clubs of its
kind, welcomed guests
throughout the years.
Hamilton’s was a mainstay on the beach until tornados from Hurricane Ivan
destroyed it in 2005.
Leatrice Jackson and Gloria
Southall sun bath behing the
Hang Out in 1947.
Youngsters
lounged at the
Hang Out social
club at Long
Beach Resort.
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Youngsters “bop” at the Hang Out, one of the Beach’s
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Above: Ed Hickey (frontrow, right) opened
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Paul Baldut; in the rear: Mike Goodson, Tom
Goodman, John Nolan, Leo Tober, Ronnie
Hendrix, and Teddy Harris. Top right: A postcard from 1940 shows a crowded waterfront
beach. Left: Guests at Long Beach Resort
could pose behind different scene boards for
photos. These fellows appear to stand behind
a “city jail.” Bottom right: A postcard of Long
Beach Resort shows an Olympic-size pool.
Buildings are shown along
roads at Edgewater Resort
several decades ago.
Condominiums and lawn chairs are pictured
at the shore at Edgewater Resort.
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EATING, LOUNGING, & SOCIALIZING
The Top O The Strip
tower, later the
Miracle Strip Tower,
opened in 1966.
The Anderson family was famous for their fleet of
fishing boats and also developed the marina on Grand
Lagoon by the bridge on Thomas Drive. The marina is
pictured here in a more contemporary fashion.
Left: Pineapple
Willy’s is shown here,
as it stands today;
located at the place
where the 1000foot constructed by
Gideon Thomas and
built in the early ‘30s.
The Surf Motel is pictured here, having weathered the harshness of Hurricane
Eloise in 1975.
BEACHES & PEOPLE
The Beach & People
It is believed this woman is pictured on top of the
Fontainebleau Terrace. The Fontainebleau Terrace
was the tallest building on PCB for many years.
Top right: This was taken on Panama City Beach
in 1945. It is likely that the woman holding the baby
is the wife of a WWII soldier.
BEACHES & PEOPLE
Young men are pictured on truck
during a pastime Spring Break.
Bottom left: A motel marquee
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BEACHES & PEOPLE
A family enjoys
the water and
sugar sands at
Panama City
Beach.
Beach side services were a common thing of the past. Several chairs and umbrellas line the beach as
beach goes sun bath and swim.
BEACHES & PEOPLE
An areil view of Panama City
Beach shoreline reveals its
natural beauty.
A typical sunny
day at Old Panama City Beach
in the early
1960s.
A drifting sand hazard sign warns drivers the road
surface might not be visible or safe to drive on because sand has drifted onto it.
This 1960s photo shows (left to right): Miss Miracle Strip Amusement Park,
Miss Panama City, Miss Long Beach and Miss West Panama City Beach.
Local historian Kenny Redd’s sisters at the
beach in 1959.
BEACHES & PEOPLE
Above: Lanotan provided tanning solutions to
beachgoers. Top right: Miss Long Beach’s Marie Savage,
is pictured here with Ed Hickey founder of Ed’s Beach
Service. Bottom left: J.E. Churchwell and his nephew
Guy Churchwell were visionaries. In the photo, beach
goers play on swings and in the sand at Long Beach Resort.
Bottom right: Beach goers jump high on the waterfront
trampolines located behind the Hang Out at Long Beach
Resort.
BEACHES & PEOPLE
Above: Air Brush Fashion remains common on Panama City Beach. These women in this
1987-88 photo sport airbrush on different parts of their clothing.
Top left: Beachgoers bask in the sun in this late 60s photo at Wayside Beach, located
where Russell Fields Pier at Pier Park is today.
Left center: More recently, beach goers do cartwheels on the beach.
Bottom left: This photo shows Laguna Beach homes and cottages in the 50s.
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