Weeki Wachee, city of mermaids : a history of one of Florida's oldest roadside attractions / text by Lu Vickers ; story research and photograph compilation by Sara Dionne ; foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault.

Author/creator Vickers, Lu.
Other author Dionne, Sara.
Format Book
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007.
Descriptionxvi, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 x 27 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesThe Florida history and culture series
Florida history and culture series. ^A392400
Contents Florida : a watery dreamscape -- The human fish -- Wakulla : fit palace for Neptune -- Transforming myth into kitsch -- The forties and fifties : Weeki Wachee's glamour shot -- The sixties : from Elvis to Don Knotts -- The seventies : the era of the mouse -- The eighties : the age of acquisition -- The nineties : from the encyclopedia of bad taste to the tails of yesteryear -- The merlinnium : a return to the sublime.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [287]-288) and index.
LCCN 2006028472
ISBN0813030412 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780813030418 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GV1853.3.F62 V53 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold