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You have just arrived in...[drawing of a mother and three kids in a station wagon] Zephyrhills, Florida
The City of Pure Water
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[drawing of a woman in a bikini waterskiing]
Welcome to...Zephyrhills!
THE PERFECT RETIREMENT AND
VACATION COMMUNITY
POPULATION 5,000. Between 1950-1960 population doubled and is increasing constantly. Better than 1,250,000 population within 75 miles radius of Zephyrhills. Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line Railroads; Greyhound Bus service
Served by inter- and intrastate trucking
Reached by Hwys. 301 and 98; State Roads 54, 39 and 41
Ample city water from deep wells is pure, without additives
Good schools, 19 churches
Tourist Club with 700 members
No bonded indebtedness; low taxes
Average annual temperature: 71.3 degrees
Golf Course, visitors welcome to play
Modern building codes, zoning regulations
Trained police and fire personnel
20 minutes drive to Tampa Industrial Park and University of South Florida; 45 minutes from downtown Tampa or Lakeland
Airport: Runways 5600, 5500 and 5400 feet. Service, repair, charter flights. Equipped for ambulance flights.
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To Make the Miles Go...
Play ‘“‘Alphabet Flowers’ -— Driver starts with ‘A’, names flower starting with that letter. Following players take letters in order, but name preceding flowers before their own (or choose animals, groceries, etc.)
Try ‘20 Questions.” ‘It’? chooses an animal, vegetable or mineral (basic classification) and announces which his secret is. Others in car get 20 questions to find solution. ‘It’? answers only “yes” or ‘no.’ Winner gets to be “It” next. (Samples: Betsy Ross, the telephone poles outside the car, the water tower in Zephyrhills.)
Or play “Roadsign Alphabet.’ Driver finds an “A” on a sign. Passengers find next letters in order, until
“Z’’, Then whoever finds ‘“Z’ on a sign first is the winner.
Or try “Car Color Roulette.” Play a game of half an hour. Approaching cars only are credited to passengers in assigned order. Blue car is 10 points, red 8 points, white 6 points, green 4 points, tan or brown 2 points and black 1 point. Count both colors on two-tone cars, add 10 points to color of trucks. Buses count straight 15 points.
Other “Mile Charmers’: Keep a list of how many of the 50 state license plates and foreign countries you see on your trip; recall old riddles, songs and sayings. (Knock-knock, Confucius Say, Little Willie, etc.), write the alphabet and list towns as you come to them, one for each letter. See if your trip fills the list, and begin with Zephyrhills at "Z."
Can you find the Way Home?
Start here at Zephyrhills:
[drawing of a maze with "Your Home" in the center]
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Riddles—
1. When is a dollar bill like a shirt?
2. When is a piece of land like a sore tooth?
3. What.is the difference between a farmer and a seamstress?
4. Why is the word ‘“fare-well” like a bargain?
5. What is the difference between a hungry man and a greedy person?
6. What is the hardest thing about roller skating?
[Drawing of a triangle within a circle, surrounded by three semicircles] Is the circle a perfect circle? Try laying a quarter on it.
[Drawing of a 6 pointed star made of triangles] How many triangles in this 6-pointed star?
[Drawing of overlapping squares] Look carefully. Which square is nearest to you, the top one or the bottom one?
[Drawing of a parellelogram with a diagonal line running through it and two diagonal pencils] Which pencil is longer? The one on the left or the one on the right?
Tongue Twister--
Five fine flame-colored flamingos flew from Florida
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More about ZEPHYRHILLS ...
Zephyrhills is located in the southeastern part of Pasco County, which borders on the Gulf of Mexico, and is about midway, north and south, in peninsular Florida. This part of the country is in the hill section, the hills being dotted with lakes; LeHeup Hill, six and one-half miles north of Zephyrhills, is known as one of the highest points in Florida (310 feet above sea level).
Zephyrhills, being located on the main lines of two railroads, the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line, as well as being the hub of many good highways, is ideal for all kinds of industries and other enterprises. Special consideration will be extended by the City as to location and tax exemption.
Zephyrhills has a modern 25-room hotel with bath in each room, with reasonable rates. Many good apartments, cottages, cabins, rooms and modern motels are available at reasonable rates.
Hundreds of automobile tourists from almost every state in the Union may be found during the winter in Zephyrhills.
Zephyrhills has new modern school buildings with a faculty of 61. The courses of study meet the state requirements for accredited senior high schools. Children of winter visitors and tourists are welcome, and no tuition is charged. Textbooks are furnished free through all 12 grades. There are four private kindergartens.
The Tourist Club of Zephyrhills, Inc., owns its own club house, playground and equipment, and it has a yearly membership of 600 to 700. Zephyrhills has a privately-owned, air-conditioned recreation center with an 8-lane bowling alley. Visitors are welcome to use Zephyrhills’ 9-hole golf course for a low daily or monthly fee.
Zephyrhills has a good weekly newspaper, the Zephyrhills News; a new city auditorium and public library: 19 churches; several modern trailer parks; a new modern postoffice with city delivery; dial tele- phone service; modern drive-in bank; super markets; new ladies’ and men’s ready-to-wear stores; and a large airport with mile-long runways. More than a hundred homes have been built annually in recent years within the city and suburbs. :
“Small enough to know you,
Large enough to serve you!”
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Traveling Titters—
The older a man gets the farther he walked to school as a boy.
Ducks fly to Florida in the winter . . . because it’s too far to walk.
Why does Santa Claus have a garden? So he can ‘Ho, ho, ho!”
‘Unlawful’? means “against the law.” ‘Illegal’ means ‘‘a sick bird.”
There was a kidnapping in Zephyrhills, but they woke him up.
Big robbery in Zephyrhills! Two clothespins held up a pair of pants.
Fight at Zephyrhills railroad station; two tickets got punched.
The man told the clerk he wanted to try on the suit in the window, but was told he’d have to use the store’s dressing room.
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Answers 1. When it's changed. 2. When it's an acre. 3. One gathers what he sows, the other sews as she gathers. 4. It's a good-bye. 5. One longs to eat, the other eats too long. 6. The pavement. Pencils: Both are the same. Star: 56.
See Florida from Zephyrhills--- "City of Pure Water"
Bok Singing Tower ----- 57 Miami ---------------------- 261
Bradenton-----------------65 Ocala ------------------------- 72
Clearwater ----------------51 Okeechobee -------------- 145
Cypress Gardens ------ 48 Orlando ---------------------- 69
Daytona Beach --------- 129 Pensacola ----------------- 437
Everglades National Park Rainbow Springs ---------- 74
Park-------------------------209 Sarasota --------------------- 75
Fort Myers --------------- 140 Silver Springs -------------- 78
Gainesville --------------- 110 St. Augustine -------------- 158
Great Masterpiece ------ 59 St. Petersburg -------------- 52
Hillsborough River Stephen Foster
State Park ------------------ 7 Memorial --------------- 173
Homosassa Springs --- 55 Tallahassee ---------------- 226
Jacksonville -------------- 173 Tampa ------------------------ 27
Key West ----------------- 417 Tarpon Springs-------------- 42
Lakeland ------------------- 26 Weeki Wachee Springs -- 47
Drive Safely!
“Don’t Be a Litterbug ... Keep Florida Clean”’
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