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By Mike Simmons It was a typical frame house in a typical middle-class neighborhood. The house stood on Coyle Street between LaRua and Jackson Streets on the west side of […]

By Mike Simmons     The Saturday, October 11, 1952 edition of the Pensacola News Journal cost five cents and listed the weather as mild with a high of 72 degrees.

End of Watch: Sunday, February 22, 1953 An excerpt from the book, Some Gave All, available on Amazon By Mike Simmons On April 22, 1905, Riley Simmons joined the Pensacola

By Mike Simmons Today, February 20 is National Handcuff Day. On this day in 1912, Inventor George Carney was given a patent number in the United States for his new

An excerpt from the book, “I’m A Dead Man,” by Mike Simmons, is available on Amazon. March 17, 1964: Pensacola, Florida In the quiet of the darkness, a long dark

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons It was an old building. The roof leaked, and the old carpet smelled. Most of it, the

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons Under Chief Hall’s direction, many changes occurred. On August 5, 1956, the new police headquarters and jail

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons Finally, on February 29, 1908, the new police station, located on the Northwest corner of Jefferson and

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons After sixteen years together, the realization hit the city fathers that one building was insufficient to conduct

An excerpt from the book, “Pensacola’s Finest,” available on Amazon By Mike Simmons One of the results of the new provisional municipality was a decision that was made to erect