Remembering Daytona Beach
From its founding to the present day, Daytona Beach has consistently built and reshaped its appearance, ideals, and industry. Through changing fortunes, the city has continued to grow and prosper by overcoming adversity and maintaining the strong, independent culture of its citizens.
With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Daytona Beach, Harold D. Cardwell, Sr., provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Daytona Beach. Remembering Daytona Beach captures this journey through still photography selected from the finest archives. From Daytona Beach as a tourist destination to its role in motorcycle and car racing, Remembering Daytona Beach follows life, government, education, and events throughout the city’s history.
This volume captures unique and rare scenes through the lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. Published in vivid black-and-white, these images communicate historic events and everyday life of two centuries of people building a unique and prosperous city.
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Book details
- Text by
- Harold D. Cardwell
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
History › United States › State & Local › Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) - Topics
- Florida history · local history · historic photography · pictorial history · city development · tourism history
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368250
About the author
HAROLD D. CARDWELL, SR. was a registered landscape architect and horticultural therapist who authored numerous historical books on the Daytona Beach region. His books include Remembering Daytona Beach, Daytona Beach: 100 Years of Racing and Historic Photos of Daytona Beach.
Cardwell was named Historian of the Year by the Volusia County Historical Commission for 1987–88 and received the Lazarus Award from the Florida Anthropological Society. He held a B.A. from Florida Technological University and an A.A. from Daytona Beach Community College, and was listed in Who’s Who in America.
When not writing, Cardwell served on the boards of the Halifax Historical Society and the Florida Historical Society, and retired as a Senior Rehabilitation Specialist with the Florida Department of Labor and Employment Security, Division of Blind Services. Much of his work focused on the history of the Daytona Beach region.