Remembering Daytona Beach

by Harold D. Cardwell (Text by)

Overview

From its founding to the present day, Daytona Beach has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the city has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.

With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Daytona Beach, Harold D. Cardwell, Sr., provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Daytona Beach. Remembering Daytona Beach captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Daytona Beach as a tourist destination to its role in motorcycle and car racing, Remembering Daytona Beach follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history.

This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683368250
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	05/24/2010
Series:	Remembering
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Harold D. Cardwell, Sr., is a retired Senior Rehabilitation Specialist with the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, Division of Blind Services. He is a lifelong resident of Volusia County and a graduate of Florida Technological University. During World War II he was assigned to the Atomic Bomb Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mr. Cardwell is currently president of the Port Orange Historical Trust. He is a board member of the Florida Historical Society, the Halifax Historical Society, the Daytona Beach Historic Preservation Board, and the Volusia Anthropological Society. Mr. Cardwell is the author of many journal articles on local history and has written a number of books on the history of Port Orange and Daytona Beach.