Few Pensacolians today realize that their city once had a military football team named the “Goshawks!” By 1966, they had their own...

By 1937, the nation had finally begun to pull itself out of the Great Depression. Headlines in the Pensacola News Journal had proclaimed...

In this new age of texting and online banking, few people give any thought to how our mail was handled prior to the 1950’s. In those days...

Tate High graduate John Earnest Gannon from the class of 1935 was born April 7, 1917, the son of William E. and Margaret “Maggie” M....

As advertised in the Pensacola News Journal 9-24-1955 RCA Victor Radio 1941 Most Pensacolians Heard the News of Pearl Harbor on this Radio

Adrian Thompson Enfinger was born in Milton, Florida on October 26, 1923 to the union of Lewis Thompson Enfinger and Jessie Ora Steadham....

How would today’s generation define the concept of duty to a higher cause? The story of one Pensacolian’s patriotic duty began with the...

After the 1st Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal, the Japanese struck back with a vengeance. This fear caused the U.S. high command to...

Charles Wesley Mankin Jr. was born on June 20, 1922 to the union of Charles W. Mankin Sr. and Elsie Letson. He was a graduate of...

Born on March 29, 1921, John Henry Hendrix was the son of James A. Hendrix and Matilda Alice Boutwell of Molino, Florida. He was working...

The Florida Highway Patrol was formed on August 1, 1939 by the Florida Legislature and began with a full complement of sixty officers...

Born in 1925 in St. Augustine, Florida, Walter Adell “Rick” McClellan moved to Pensacola with his parents in 1932. Upon graduation from...

The Bagdad, Florida Post Office in Santa Rosa County was ruled by Miss Mary Joyner for 43 years before she retired in 1940. Born prior to...

Jack Gifford Ehlerding graduated from Pensacola High School in the Class of 1940. He was born in 1923 in Polk County, Minnesota, the son...

Staff Sergeant Julius Cornelius Nord was born in Indiana in October 1, 1923 to Mr. and Mrs. Richard "Dick" Sweetman. He spent two years...

America’s first “Lone Ranger” was none other than Lee Berriam Powell in the popular Western series in 1937. Following the initial movie,...

Born in 1891, Noel Guy Davis graduated from Annapolis in 1914. During World War I, he laid 56,000 mines stretching across the North Sea...

In the first half of the century the town of Bogia was small compared to some of its nearby neighbors, but there was still enough...

By 1900, the art of hanging as a form of execution had become very efficient throughout the United States. However, it was not without...

On June 25, 1920. a Pensacola man named Hosea Poole, appeared before the circuit court and heard the foreman of the jury read aloud his...