Remembering Fort Lauderdale

<p>In less than one hundred years Fort Lauderdale grew from a wilderness stagecoach stop and trading post to become one of America's favorite tourist destinations and the seat of government for Florida’s second-most-populous county.</p><p>With a selection of fine historic images from her best-selling book <em>Historic Photos of Fort Lauderdale</em> Susan Gillis provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of this remarkable city. <em>Remembering Fort Lauderdale</em> captures the story of that remarkable growth through vivid black-and-white photographs carefully selected from the finest collections. From the days of wooden stores and empty beaches to the era of high-rises and Spring Break crowds through hurricanes wars and times of boom and bust <em>Remembering Fort Lauderdale</em> tells the story of the "Venice of America presented in a unique collection of never-to-be-forgotten images.</p>