Beginning in the early 1950s, the 130 miles of Florida coastline
stretching from Panama City to Pensacola were branded as the Miracle
Strip. Between those cities, oddities sprang up: goofy miniature golf
courses, neon-bedecked motels, reptile farms and attractions that sought
to re-create environments ranging from the South Pacific to the ghost
towns of the Old West. In total, it was a marketing effort that worked
brilliantly. Tourists flocked to the Strip, and now they can return.
Author Tim Hollis presents a colorful array of these now-vanished
sights, from the garish Miracle Strip Amusement Park to such oddities as
Castle Dracula and the Museum of the Sea and Indian.