Mystery Photos

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Mystery Photo for  November & December 2001

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The house was owned by Dr. William Hughlett and was know as “The Hughlett House.” Dr. Hughlett was the first mayor of Cocoa and a state senator.

The house was located on the corner of Delannoy and Church. The house was sold to Barnett Bank (now Bank of America) in the early 1960’s. The house was torn down in the late 1960’s.

Thank you to Al Trafford and Henry Parrish for this information.

Mystery Photo for September & October 2001

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The first day the paper was out Mr. Trafford and Mr. Daniel Meadows both called to let us know that the picture was of Flower Dell Florist and that the building was at 426 Brevard Ave., in the general area of where the Bank of America’s drive-thru window is now. The man in the photo is John England, the owner. I also received calls from people who remember purchasing corsages from Mr. England for special occasions. Others called to say that they remembered that Mr. England grew most of the flowers he used in the shop. Margaret Funsch called to let us know her mother use to work at Flower Dell.

Mystery Photo for July & August  2001

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This Mystery Photo iwasn’t as easy as it first looked. Thank you to The Tebeau-Field Library for allowing us to use the picture.

The shuffleboard court in the picture was not the one that was on Harrison Street; in fact the one on Harrison Street was built after the one in the photo was torn down. There were a lot of people who had the correct answer, but the most detailed answer came from Gene Baird via email.

Gene’s answer was, “The Mystery Photo for July/August is of the Cocoa Shuffleboard Courts, a favorite gathering place for winter tourist (late 30s through 1964.) It was located at the southwest corner of Orange Street and Brevard Court in an area known as Daniel Park, directly west, across Brevard Court from the old Cocoa Post Office that faced Brevard Avenue (now the Tebeau-Field Florida Historical Library.) The white building partly seen behind the shelter at rear of photo is the USO Club that served Naval Personnel from the Banana River Naval Air Station, now Patrick AFB. It was completed early in 1942 at a cost of $10,000. After WW II it was used as the Cocoa Youth Center for dances, parties, etc. It later became the City of Cocoa Public Library until the middle of March 1965, when both the shuffleboard courts and the library were demolished to make way for a new US Post Office at 32 Orange Street. The Post Office was completed by the end of 1965 and dedicated January 15, 1966.”

Mystery Photo for May & June 2001

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Thank you to everyone who contacted us with information about the May/June mystery photo. There were a lot of people
who knew the police officer in the picture was Ed Dempsey. We were told he went on to become the police chief (this was before Art Corlew) of Cocoa.

As to the location of the sign we were given two different answers, the first answer was that it was next to Bennett Fish Market on Harrison St. and the other answer was that it was on US1 near where the Jumping Flea Market is now.

As to who the ladies in the photo are, I received this answer via email just before this paper went to print: “The girl’s in the photo are Jane Ladrie (myself, shorter one on left) and Helen Finger. This photo was taken in 1955 or 56 by Hawk’s Photo in Melbourne. I went on to do modeling in Miami and central Florida for several years as did my children. In 1988 I married my childhood sweetheart, Fred Blanton. Glad to see someone found this photo”.

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