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Mack Meiner
Mack Meiner's Real Pit Bar-B-Q
ABOVE: Postcard Meiner's Pit Bar B Que on Colonial Drive in Orlando.
Restaurant Business Was In His Blood
The keys to Mack Meiner's success were an eye for business opportunities and a secret family barbecue recipe. A restaurateur...
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"Winners: Memoirs by Carolyn Sparks"
It all began at an interview in March 1987. Carolyn Sparks was meeting Mr. Bill Spoone, the principal of the soon to be opened new high school to discuss a teaching position. Mr. Spoone asked Carolyn if she had any...
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My Grandmother, Mary Raab, and Orlando Regional Medical Center
My grandmother, Mary Raab, was an amazing woman and I loved her very much.
In 1922, when she was 18 years old, my grandmother, then Mary Ellman, moved to Winter Garden, Florida with her family. They later moved to Orlando to...
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Gerald Ford at Florida Technological University
Sometime between 1974 and 1975, President Gerald R. Ford visited the campus of Florida Technological University (FTU) now University of Central Florida (UCF) to speak to the Society of Professional Journalists. My husband was attending school there and had the...
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Elinor Williams
Elinor Williams was born on December 1, 1944 and passed away just before Thanksgiving on November 19, 2005. She was beloved and admired by all who knew her. Sentinel staff writer, Tammie Wersinger wrote about her passing in the Orlando...
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Edgewater Library Staff - 2002
ABOVE: Northgate Plaza sign with advertisement for Book Trek event at the Edgewater Branch Library in 1998.
What we know today as the Edgewater Branch Library, part of the Orange County Library System, opened in 1997 in the Northgate Plaza at...
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