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2007 Mystery Photos
Mystery Photos
In our local newspaper we have a column with mystery photos on the front page. The information is repeated here for your convenience with links images from low to high resolution.
Special thanks to the Florida Historical Society and the Mosquito Beaters for assistance on many of the images. If you like these pictures, you should also see the Mosquito Beater website photos: http://www.mosquitobeaters.org/photos/index.html. We are always looking for additional images, if you have some let us know.
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Historical Mystery Photo for November - December 2007
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This issue’s photo is easy, the year and activity is on the car banner. It is the Cocoa High School Home Coming Queen of 1954 in the 56/57 Veteran’s Day Parade. The young lady pictured called us to say “THATS ME” and “Being in Cocoa High School was the best years of my life, I go back for Mosquito Beaters every year I can.” Libby Bailey McIness now lives in Orange Park
You can email your answers to cvnews@cocoavillage.com or call us at (321) 633-4990/4997.
Historical Mystery Photo for September - October 2007
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This issue’s photo is a view of the Hubert Humphrey Bridge some time after it was constructed, perhaps circa early 1970’s? The Mosquito Beaters have several
photographs of the bridge from when it was wooden up to present day in their
photo albums at the Florida Historical Society.
You can email your answers to cvnews @ cocoavillage.com or call us at (321) 633-4990/4997. If you have unique historical photographs of the area to share with us and the Historical Society, we welcome you to call us.
Historical Mystery Photo for July - August 2007
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The Mystery Photo for this issue is of the front of Campell Drug store. The information we are looking for is they year the photo was taken and what in the picture was unique for it’s time. If you know the answer you can call us at (321) 633-4990 / 4997 or email us at
The Mystery Photo was of Campbell Drugs on Brevard Ave. David James gave this answer via email, “The year? 1954. What is unique? I wondered what the posts were in front of the doors and upon closer inspection; I realized they had automatic doors, which were indeed unique for that year. In those days, automatic doors had a rubber or vinyl walkway that activated the door to open, unlike now where an infrared beam does the same thing.”
Another reader called to say that there was a Gas Light in front Campbell Drug Store right behind the S on the sidewalk. They went on to say that these were the first electric doors in Cocoa. Note the streetlights and the parking meter narrow the period that the photo was taken.
John Campbell, the son of the owner of the drug store came by our office to show us newspaper articles about the new doors. There were several pages with best wishes from other business owners in the area. Several of the pictures of the front of the store were turned into postcards and sold in the store. He went on to tell us that he met his wife in the drug store. It had a dinner area and she would come over from her job in the store that was where the Threadneedle Mall is now and eat lunch.
By the way, this was reported by the Mosquito Beaters to be the first electric door in Cocoa.
Historical Mystery Photo for March - April 2007
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We knew that the person in the new mystery photo for May-June 2007 is George L. "Speedy" Harrell sitting in front of the gift ship for the Florida Historical Society. The question was — what is he holding? A lot of people tried to guess what “Speedy” is holding in the picture. Several people came close. It does indeed have something to do with water and with fire.
In the days of wooden bridges these cone shaped buckets would be tied to the bridges to be used in case of fire. The cone shape makes it so the bucket would sink into the water faster.
The bucket is at the Florida Historical Society if you want to see it. Thanks everyone for your participation.
Historical Mystery Photo for March - April 2007
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The mystery photo for March-April 2007 is a picture of the old Cocoa Train station from a collection of images provided to the Mosquito Beaters by Mark Sawyer. According to ‘Speedy’ the station as pictured use to be at Peachtree and Forrest. The stop was later moved to the Cocoa/Rockledge station and shortly thereafter discontinued passenger service.
Please respect Mark and the Mosquito Beaters for any use of this image. If you are interested in local history, you can join the ‘Mosquito Beaters.’ To find out more, see their website www.mosquitobeaters.org They also have an office and volunteer services at the Florida Historical Society Library in Historic Cocoa Village. Call or email us with any facts, photos or stories you may have about the old Cocoa Train Station and railways or any of the other photos at 321-633-4990 or email us at cvnews@cocovillage.com. If you have pictures that we can use either as a Mystery Photo or for a historical article please contact us about those as well.
Historical Mystery Photo for January - February 2007
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For the Jan.-Feb. 2007 mystery photo, Irving Rubin called to let us know that on the left corner before the bridge was his father’s memorable "Rubin Brothers Department Store" and that the photograph was sometime in the 1920’s looking east down Harrison Street. Back then the waterfront was behind Travis Hardware and along Delannoy Avenue. Eighty years later the signage has changed, power lines were put underground, a one way traffic winds around stone paved sidewalks with landscaping; however the same buildings can be seen.
Barbara Pond contacted us by email to tell us, "I was born in Cocoa so I know where this picture was taken. This is Harrison Street in downtown Cocoa. You can see the old bridge over the Indian River. And you can see the old bank that is now a restaurant. The picture also shows the back door to Campbell’s drug store (on the left). I was born just a block away on Delannoy."
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