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Zsa Zsa Gabor Receives a Key to Palm Beach Gardens
Born Sári Gábor on Feb. 6, 1917, in Budapest, Zsa Zsa was the middle sister of an average Hungarian family — between younger sister Eva (1919 – 1995) and older sister Magda (1915 – 1997) — Zsa Zsa was in the public eye for more than six…
Walt Disney Considers Palm Beach Gardens Site
When Walt Disney was considering locations for a new theme park in Florida, he held discussions with John MacArthur about the up and coming City of Palm Beach Gardens. MacArthur needed some kind of industry to attract new residents and believed…
Transplanting the Banyan Tree to Palm Beach Gardens
In 1961, MacArthur transplanted a banyan tree to the site of Northlake and Garden Boulevards at the main entrance to Palm Beach Gardens. However, unforeseen problems arose during the transplant, including the cutting of the Western Union lines…
Train Wreck in Palm Beach Gardens, 1963
A 1963 train wreck on the F.E.C. Railway at Alternate A1A in Palm Beach Gardens caught the attention of a passerby who felt compelled to capture the image.
The Widening of Military Trail
As Palm Beach Gardens began to grow exponentially in the 1960s, the Department of Public Works had to evaluate the size of their most popular roads and plan for continued growth. A decision was made to widen Military Trail in 1970, though this…
The Gardens Mall - Aerial View
Florida's largest shopping mall at the time, The Gardens Mall opened in the fall of 1988 at 3101 PGA Boulevard. This urban center, developed by the Forbes Company, was designated to be the centerpiece for the city's commercial and business district…
The Flyover on PGA Boulevard
Each of the four towers atop the PGA Boulevard flyover bridge house an elegant steel mesh sculpture by Maryland artist Wendy Ross. Each suspended metal sphere is about five feet in diameter. Below each sphere is transparent steel mesh fabricated to…
Teacher Retires from Allamanda Elementary
Teacher Sally Hyduk, retiring after 40 years, says goodbye to Allamanda Elementary students as the school day ends. Hyduk was an inclusion teacher, going into other teachers' classrooms to work with students, so that the students could stay in class…
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Building Project, 1980
Four men from St. Mark's Episcopal Church, all engineers from Pratt & Whitney, including former mayor and city councilman Walter Wiley, helped plan and build the tractor shed during the years of school and sanctuary reconstruction. The other church…
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, April 1963
By April of 1963, the congregation of St. Mark's Episcopal Church had expanded beyond the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ranlet in North Palm Beach, so they set up a temporary facility at the abandoned Guava Farm House, just north of the Publix Market…