Sarasota Livin'

I enjoy my visits to the "My Florida History" blog, Lucy Jones really finds some interesting things here are just a few recent finds:

Using Sanborn Maps to Find History of Your House which took me to this awesome Florida Maps page

I also enjoyed thinking about ...
History is a Business Asset which points to some Florida businesses that have their history on the web... here is a quote from Tropicanna..

With this goal in mind, Mr. Rossi moved his packing operation from Palmetto to Bradenton and formed Fruit Industries, Inc.- the company that was to become Tropicana. At first, the Florida Citrus Commission denied the company a license to package and ship its products, convinced that the fruit and juice would spoil on its journey north. But through trial and error, Mr. Rossi and his employees developed a process of packaging orange and grapefruit sections aseptically in glass containers, and the license was granted.

The company began to ship jars of sectioned fruit and fresh juice to hotels and restaurants in specially-modified refrigerated trucks. Ingredients for the fresh fruit salads on the menu of New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel were supplied by Fruit Industries; the hotel had a standing order for 1,000 gallons of juice and fruit jars each week.