History does not always announce itself with fanfare. Sometimes it arrives quietly, with a signature, an appointment, and a responsibility handed to one person to stand watch over a new […]
By Mike Simmons On Saturday, January 11, 1930, the Pensacola News Journal reported the deaths in Pensacola from the previous year. 523 people died in the Pensacola area in 1929
Pensacola’s most colorful mayor By Mike Simmons Vélez-Málaga, Spain is a small town on the southern edge of Spain, about a mile from the Alboran Sea. In the 1700s, it
By Mike Simmons On June 6, 1907, Frank Sanders took over as the Pensacola Police Marshal and Chief from previous Marshal Milton Frank. He immediately noticed no discipline or order
By Mike Simmons She was an international star, performing across the United States as well as in London. Mary Anderson was certainly one to stir up an audience, performing in
By Mike Simmons The 1819 Transcontinental Treaty between the United States and Spain ceded Florida to the United States, defined the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase, and renounced the
By Mike Simmons St. Anne’s Roundup in Pensacola was a beloved annual event hosted by St. Ann Catholic Parish. It was a Western-themed festival that brought the community together for
By Mike Simmons The January 3, 1885, edition of the Pensacola Commercial contained the following: A bear in a China shop “A well-known citizen of Pensacola, familiarly called ‘Chips,’
By Mike Simmons In 1908, the business of policing wasn’t much different than it is today. Those with an eye for money details were charged with budgeting the cost of
By Mike Simmons It was finally finished! Pensacola, like most other towns, had suffered through the Great Depression. But…there was finally some progress being shown. The start of 1934 opened
