At the beginning of WWII, so many men were needed to fight overseas that it created a vacuum in the military jobs they left behind. That...

Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful operation that was fought in Holland. Sadly, the success of the operation depended on the...

To recapture the city of Manila in the Philippines, the US Sixth Army landed on the beaches of Lingayen Gulf on January 9, 1945. Meeting...

James "Jim" William Harter was born August 24, 1920, the youngest child of Jessie Margaret Jernigan (1874-1954) and John Leonidas Harter...

Of course, death was not the only way out of the life style the soiled doves chose for themselves or perhaps was thrust upon them. One...

While some saloons in the downtown area sought and earned a highly respectable reputation, others could more accurately be described as...

One of infamous houses of “lesser quality” was the “Black Mariah” where prices ranged from $1.00 to $2.00 per encounter. These girls of...

Several of the more distinguished Pensacola brothels belonged to such famous proprietors as Percy Nelson, Violet Arnold, and Miss Hazel,...

Most young people of today associate the word "dropsy" with the fumbling of their grandparents. However, throughout history, dropsy was a...

The price for a turn of the century "soiled dove" can be gleaned from the death records of these ladies, all of which had their...

Pensacola's economic boom at the turn of the century caused another problem to surface downtown and along the waterfront. With the...

The Munda airfield on the island of New Georgia was fought over by more Pensacolians that most people knew. Another hometown boy was Cpl....

One of several Pensacolians killed in New Guinea was AMM 2nd Class Joseph Edward Brown Jr. of Route #4, Pensacola. He was the son of...

Even with the addition of the new roads and bridges around the Pensacola area the main mode of travel outside of the city was still the...

Additions to the local highway system was bringing travelers into Pensacola, but the real attraction would be to get them out to...

As the Naval Air Station continued to build in importance as the “Cradle of Naval Aviation,” more and more facilities were needed to keep...

By 1926, it was plain that with the advent of the automobile that better roads would have to be built to accommodate this new mode of...

By 1920, the railway was very much alive and healthy as it carried its passengers to and from their various destinations around Pensacola...

One of the first attempts at public transportation in Pensacola was in July 1884, when Conrad Kupfrain, Henry Pfeiffer, and John Cosgrove...

Without television coverage, citizens had to depend on other methods for notification of pending storms. So they developed a system of...