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Panama City: The Industrial and Recreational Center of Northwest Florida
Chamber of Commerce In a Delightful Convention City
Panama City, Florida
Yassuh, Plenty ob’ Climate!
Panama City and surrounding territory has an extremely healthful and invigorating all-year climate.
The average temperature over more than a quarter century records 68 degrees, with an average high of 77 and an average low of 58 degrees. Average annual rainfall 57 inches, well distributed.
Mild healthful climate continually, good water, normal labor conditions and other features materially aid industrial development. For large industries heating and housing problems are minimized. Employees are happy and healthy in a land of sunshine and invigorating surroundings.
For Dairy Farms there is all-year pasturage, and heated Earns are unnecessary. These advantages apply to poultry farming and agricultural development.
Around Panama City can be found more than twenty-five different crop bearing soils suited to a vast variety of crops, including many fruits, vegetables and berries. Panama City offers co-operation to those industries or individuals desiring to locate in Florida. Transportation facilities include rail, water (both coastwise and foreign) and highways.
Panama City, though young in years of growth, is fast becoming a place of beautiful homes. Those who would escape the rigor of Northern winters find Panama City a haven of refuge.
Panama City As It Looks From the Air
Famed Silver Tarpon
To the sportsman and nature lover the St. Andrews Bay section offers many recreational advantages, with sports suited to those vigorous in body, as well as those who must take life calmly. Hundreds of fresh water lakes and rivers are quick with those game fellows large and small mouth black bass, with trout and bream in plentiful quantities. And fishermen, remember! St. Andrews Bay is arena for the king of southern waters—THE SILVER TARPON! He comes, lean and hungry from Brazilian waters, to sport for weeks in St. Andrews Bay. He strikes ferociously and fights valiantly, his great silver body flashing in the sunlight—a worthy trophy for any sportsman.
All of this, and move, at Panama City, where there is health, vigor and rest in every breeze that blows in from the ocean -
Where turquoise skies drop low to silvery sands,
And whispering winds bring in your
ship o’ dreams.
- WILL D. MUSE
Vacations!
Sure...Any Time in the Year
Panama City’s surf beaches cannot be surpassed in any country. These beaches are fifteen minutes from the city, over paved boulevards. The bay beaches are also delightful and convenient. St. Andrews Bay, said to be one of the most beautiful in the country, is a land-locked harbor, ideally suited for yachts and pleasure craft of all kinds. Here the sportsman can have bay and deep sea fishing including Silver Tarpon, sail fish, king and Spanish mackerel, devil fish, sea bass and many other varieties. There is also good hunting, including bear, deer, turkey, geese, ducks, quail and other small
game.
There is golf for those who like it. There is also tennis, horseback riding and other sports, available all year. The winters are a real delight. Mornings that chill the blood to shivering pleasure, then golf by high noon in shirt sleeves or light sweater. Bathing
can be had the year round, as the temperature of the water does not go below 65 degrees.
The Winters Are Truly
A Season Of Indian Summer
Below is the COVE HOTEL, another of Panama City’s attractions. It has 55 rooms and is located on the bay. It caters to commercial guests and vacationists, operating both European and American plan.
Cove Hotel
Panama City, Fla. "Right on the Bay."
A City Ideally Located
Panama City is on St. Andrews Bay and the Gulf, and is 315 miles south of Birmingham, Alabama, and 320 miles south of Atlanta, Georgia, and is approximately half way, on the Gulf Coast, between Tallahassee and Pensacola, Florida. The Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay railroad, of which Panama City is the southern terminus, connects with the Louisville & Nashville railroad at Cottondale, Florida, and with the A. C. L. and Central of Georgia railroads at Dothan, Alabama. This gives rail connections to all sections.
Below is ocean going steamer at the Southern Kraft Corporation docks, loading kraft paper for foreign ports. These docks are modern, costing approximately half a million dollars. Many commodities are shipped through the port of Panama City. These commodities include kraft paper, cotton, peanuts, fertilizer, lumber, logs, naval stores products and many others. Imports include cargoes of salt cake, ammonia and other commodities.
At right, HOTEL DIXIE-SHERMAN. One of the finest in the State. It has 100 outside rooms with bath. Delightful dining room, roof garden, terraces and porches fronting the sea. It caters to commercial and recreational patronage, and is open all-year. It is known widely for its service both in the hotel and dining room. Many annual conventions are held in Panama City, with the Dixie-Sherman as headquarters.
Modern fishing boats and experienced guides are always available. These boats are of various types and sizes to suit the individual needs, and can be had at reasonable rates. The hotels are glad to make res- ervations in advance for boats and guides.
Panama City has the Gilbert Hotel, and many commercial boarding houses, and apartments. With its continual growth there is great demand for apartments, and other housing needs. Panama City has wonderful schools with modern buildings, churches, and civic clubs.
It is a good place to make a living and raise a family.
A Well Built City
To Panama City has many miles of paved streets and sidewalks. One of the longest white ways in the State. Modern City and County buildings, handsome school buildings, new gymnasium, modern theaters, churches, club buildings. It has a new combination water and land Air Port, with passenger service in operation.
Panama City is destined to be one of the largest cities in the State, and in two years it has, as a port, become one of the largest and most widely discussed ports in the country.
Below is view of Southern Kraft Corporation’s six million dollar paper mill. This mill is the sixth of the International Paper Company’s Southern group, being the most modern of the six southern units. This vast industry has operated continuously since its construction in 1930, and is undisputed evidence of the industrial attractions of Florida, and also proves Panama City’s “place in the sun.”
Panama City
One of the South's Outstanding Ports on Gulf Scenic Highway
Chamber of Commerce In a Delightful Convention City
Panama City, Florida
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