On a recent flight from Miami to San Francisco, the pilot’s voice came over the intercom. Were there any medical personnel on board? “I looked around,” Fort Pierce’s Emma Rentzke said. “No one else was standing up.”
Anticipation that only the fruition of a long-held dream can have will spill over when the new Highwaymen Museum at 1234 Avenue D throws open its doors to welcome its first guests this summer.
There’s hardly a person who lived in Fort Pierce between the 1950s and 1990s who doesn’t remember stopping off at the Dairy Queen — on the corner of Tenth Street and Orange Avenue — for a tasty ice cream treat.
The scarcity of parking spaces along the streets of downtown Fort Pierce indicate a strong economic outlook for local businesses. With new stores continuing to pop up, downtown remains a thriving center of commerce for the city.
Reading Jerry Shaw’s story on the old Dairy Queen at Orange Avenue and 10th Street made me wonder why old Fort Pierce people have such fond memories of that little institution.
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Fort Pierce, a growing city established in 1901, was named for the U.S. Army fort established along the Indian River during the Second Seminole War [1835-1842].
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Most folks head online or to the store when they want new clothes. They drive to the grocery store to restock the kitchen, park their cars in garages before heading inside to enjoy an evening’s rest.
