The World's Finest Beaches

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Stock #: 131776
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Jacksonville Beach
State: Florida (FL)
County: Duval
Publisher: Dickinson's
Postmark: 1940 Aug-02
PM City: Jacksonville Beach
PM State: Fla
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Situated on the Atlantic Ocean Eighteen miles east of Jacksonville, the gateway of Florida on State Road 78. It has a year round climate on 70 degrees. A fine fishing pier extends out on the ocean a rendezvous for the angler. Safety for the bather is assured by a Red Cross Life Saving Corp of about 60 or more men; this being the first Red Cross Station organized in the United States. Motor Races are regular events on these hard packed sand beaches having a length of approximately forty miles. Its Hotels shops, picture shows and other amusements and its concrete promenade, gaily lighted, serve week-end crowds of over a hundred thousand. Beautiful settings of sub-tropical palms and sand dunes are in evidence among the beautiful homes belonging to commuters and local residents which line the beaches and vicinity.

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