Harbor Views: History of the Harbor
This terrific photograph was submitted to our Safety Harbor History gallery by Troy Hostetler.
Our new Safety Harbor History photo gallery has already received a few great uploads that help us appreciate the 'good old days' of the Harbor.
This shot of Main Street in the 1940s was submitted by Troy Hostetler, and it really takes you back to a simpler time, before development dilemmas and escaped pythons dominated the headlines.
Thanks to Troy and the staff at the Safety Harbor Museum and Cultural Center for submitting the photos we've received so far.
If you have any hostorical shots of Safety Harbor you'd like to share, feel free to upload them right here or on the Safety Harbor History photo gallery!
Fritz Kirsch
10:34 am on Saturday, March 2, 2013
I like the photo of downtown Safety Harbor. It has a lot of character and class. Florida, and Safety Harbor had it's share of disaster in the mid twenties before the Great Depression. Look at the design of our older buildings and even one of the bridges over Mullet Creek. It used to even have the date of 1925 on it. That's the year that most of Florida went bust. Land speculation in Safety Harbor, Oldsmar and Palm Harbor all went on the rocks. Property was bought by Northerners who had never even seen the lots they had purchased. Often these properties were in swamps and even under water. Then in 1926 a huge hurricane hit Florida and wiped out much of what had been built and then discouraged Northerners from coming here. It might have been a "simpler time" for us in retrospect but the people living here in the mid twenties didn't think so .