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Along the Watchtower, page 1: The PGA Championships of 1971 and 1987: Golf's only two major championships ever played on Florida soil.
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Along the Watchtower, page 1. True accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Saturday, May 24, 2008. The PGA Championships of 1971 and 1987: Golf's only two major championships ever played on Florida soil. As each new year begins, professional golfers fine-tune their considerable skills in preparation for the season's four major tournaments- the Masters in April, U.S. Open in June, British Open in July, and PGA Championship in August. Jack Nicklaus, 33, was A...
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Along the Watchtower, page 1: The Houdini family comes to the Florida Panhandle
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Along the Watchtower, page 1. True accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Saturday, May 24, 2008. The Houdini family comes to the Florida Panhandle. Harry Houdini- born Erich Weiss to a family of Jewish Hungarian immigrants- rose from an impoverished Wisconsin childhood to international stardom during the early-1900s as a magician and escape artist nonpariel, playing to packed houses in major cities around the globe. Reported, "Houdini lives again. It ...
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Along the Watchtower, page 1: The selling of Doomsday
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Along the Watchtower, page 1. True accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Sunday, May 25, 2008. The selling of Doomsday. World tensions are running high: America faces down a foreign foe as its citizens brace for an uncertain future. Headlines from today's Panama City. A weather station in nearby Apalachicola, Florida, actually records the blast's shock waves, which last five minutes). Here in Panama City, The Bomb Shelter Company opens for business on Wes...
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Along the Watchtower, page 1: Roby Yonge: The Rise and Fall of a Top-40 Hero
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Along the Watchtower, page 1. True accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Saturday, May 24, 2008. Roby Yonge: The Rise and Fall of a Top-40 Hero. For Ocala's Roby Yonge, it was perhaps the fastest ascent in the history of Top-40 radio, a rocket-ride to the pinnacle of his profession. It took Yonge less than a decade to rise from Ocala High School to his lofty position as the youngest disc jockey on the nation's most powerful station. Four years later Roby ...
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Along the Watchtower, page 1: Cotton Watts: The Last Blackface
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Along the Watchtower, page 1. True accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Sunday, May 25, 2008. Cotton Watts: The Last Blackface. The best that can be said of Cotton Watts, the Florida Panhandle's last professional blackface entertainer, is that he was the product of an unenlightened age. From 1947 to 1959, Watts was a staple of Panama City Beach summer nightlife, appearing at both the 98 Club and the near-by Surf-and-Sand Club. This lion's tame. He'll...
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Along the Watchtower, page 1: World's Tallest Man...and worst actor
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Along the Watchtower, page 1. True accounts, oddball events, and state history from Florida Panhandle reporter Ken Brooks. Sunday, May 25, 2008. World's Tallest Man.and worst actor. Every so often, even the most towering of tall tales turns out to be true. Like this one. Thirty years ago- in January, 1971- the World's Tallest Man spent the weekend in Panama City. All eight feet, two inches of him. This 1965 epic is so awful it's actually unintentionally funny. Hite plays Frank Douglas, a role described b...
