Orlando development Archives

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Mrs. Nils M. Schweizer and Architect Jerry Uhran Special Guest Speakers at Orlando Remembered, January 2020

Mrs. Nils M. Schweizer and Architect Jerry Uhran were the Special Guest Speakers at the Orlando Remembered meeting on January 15, 2020 in the Melrose Center at the Orlando Public Library. Mrs. Schweizer is the widow of Architect Nils M. Schweizer ... Read more

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Oral History Interview with Jerry Chicone, Jr.

My name is Jerry Chicone and actually I've carried a junior on my name because my dad had the same name and I was born here in Orlando in the only hospital that was in Orange County and it was called Orange General Hospital. And it wasn't until the second ... Read more

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Oral History Interview with Jerry Chicone, Jr.

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Oral History Interview with Donovan Dean

I'm Patrick Donovan Dean born here in Orlando General Hospital 28 September '39. I was born here, but during the war my folks moved to Lakeland. My father, Donovan Dean, was an architect, and became the base engineer for the military base in Lakeland. The ... Read more

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Maury L. Carter

Above: Maury L. Carter and his son, Daryl Carter, featured in Florida Trend, July 1991. Maury Carter, born in Ferrum, Virginia. My dad was a farmer and a carpenter. We had a small farm, 100 acre farm in Virginia not far from Roanoke. And I grew up ... Read more

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Oral History Interview with Donovan Dean

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Oral History Interview with Attorney Jim Robinson

My name is James C. Robinson, I'm Jim Robinson, I'm from Rock Hill, South Carolina. My family moved here in about 1925 and I was just a little boy. After I started school, I went to Hillcrest Elementary School two years and then the family moved to Conway ... Read more

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Oral History Interview with Mike Woods

Oral History interview with Attorney Mike Woods at his Orlando law office, July 27, 2016. The following is T. Michael Wood's profile from Woods & Woods, PA "T. Michael (Mike) Woods has been practicing law in Florida since 1971. Initially, his practi ... Read more

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Orlando's First Full-time City Surveyor: Donald R. Brant

I'm Donald R. Brant from Orlando, Florida. We moved here from Pittsburgh to Orlando in 1936. In 1936 that was during the Depression Days and my mother had a health problem when we lived in Pittsburgh and the doctor told her to either go to Florida or Ariz ... Read more

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Charles Gray and Florida Governor Reubin Askew

Photo of Charles Gray and Reubin Askew as pictured in Mr. Gray's Gray Robinson law office overlooking Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. LISTEN below as Charles Gray tells the story of how he beat Reubin by eight votes in their run for vice president o ... Read more

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Charlie Gray's Orlando Arena Construction Hat

Charles Gray's Orlando Arena construction hat given to him by Orlando Mayor Bill Frederick. LISTEN as Mr. Gray tells the story behind the hat in this excerpt from an oral history interview at his Gray Robinson law office in downtown Orlando on April 2 ... Read more

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The Halcyon Days of Orlando - Dann Pottinger

I'm Dann Pottinger and I'm from Orlando, one of those rare creatures that spent all my life here... My career being in the banking business. I was the founder and president of First State Financial and also president later of Commercial State Bank...I ope ... Read more