Volume 7 , Issue 9

Dixie Sherman Hotel

"You ask on one of your pages, 'Did this first skyscraper, Dixie Sherman Hotel, in Panama City, Florida make it into the twenty-first century?...'.

Unfortunately the answer is, NO it did not. It was imploded with explosives in 1969 or 1970 if my memory is correct and was either the first building or one of the first buildings on which this technique was used. I will try to dig up a photo of the building coming down. It was a full front page shot in the Panama City News Herald and a great one at that.

At the present time we are making up for the destruction of the Dixie Sherman by building condo after condo on the beaches and soon in Panama City itself, and destroying the goose that laid the golden egg, Panama City Beach itself." -- Steve   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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