As you walked through the Cape Coral Yacht Club doors Friday night, you were transported back in time. Classic music of a bygone decade blared while the dance floor was packed with tie-dye, tassels, and groovy moves. It was a special occasion. The Yacht Club was celebrating its 60th ...
The Cape Coral Museum of History honored the Cape Coral Yacht & Racquet Club’s 60th anniversary with a dinner and '60s-style dance party on Friday. Sponsored by the Gunterberg Charitable Foundation, the event also featured various speakers who shared the Yacht Club's history while the ...
“You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Those were the prophetic words of Cape Coral developer and Gulf American Corporation President Leonard Rosen during opening ceremonies for the Cape Coral Yacht Club on June 9, 1962. As the city celebrates the 60-year anniversary of the iconic building, ...
The Cape Coral Yacht Club is steeped in history from that opening event on June 9, 1962, to significant meetings that changed the course of the city to the many gatherings inside and out of this iconic area. Before the Yacht Club facility was built residents were already gathering on the ...
A juke box, pool tables, ping pong, chess, sandwiches and refreshments, dances and good conversation. Everything a teenager could want was found at Cape Coral’s original youth center. Called the “Teen Key Club,” the teenagers gathered in a 75-foot by 60-foot building — now the Tony ...
When the Cape Coral Yacht & Racquet Club opened in 1962, one of the perks was Cape property owners received a free three-year membership to the club. That membership entitled residents to the clubhouse facilities, plus the game and dining rooms. “Many families spend small fortunes ...
Just up the road from the Cape Coral Yacht Club are other historic reminders of the community’s beginnings. Between Riverside and Flamingo drives are the first eight homes built in 1958. When the Rosen brothers — Leonard and Jack — purchased 1,181 acres for $678,000 on land that ...
The Yacht Club is considered the first large entertainment, recreation and family and group gathering destination in Cape Coral. Here are other historic firsts: • First homes: Ground broken on first homes on Nov. 4, 1957, with lot prices ranging from $900 to $3,390. • First residents: ...
Before there were 200,000 people. Before there were 400 miles of canals. Before two bridges connected Cape Coral to the rest of the world, a nearly almost untouched piece of wilderness existed where mangroves and palmettos thrived, hogs and turkeys ran wild, and Native Americans and settlers ...
The Cape Coral Yacht Club is one of 39 parks in the city system, with seven more community and neighborhood parks on the way. A look at how many of the other parks got their names: Burton Memorial Park J. Chandler Burton was elected to Cape Coral’s first city council in 1970, winning ...
