Name/Title
Municipal yearbookEntry/Object ID
Library.1757Description
Municipal yearbook of Jacksonville, Florida
Municipal year book.
Annual
Years published: 1950 ; 1952/53-1963/64 ; 1965.
Continues: Jacksonville (Fla.) Jacksonville yearbook.
Library has: 1955-56, 1956-57, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1961-62, 1962-63, 1963-64.
Contents: 1955-56: Mayor Haydon Burns -- General fund receipts/expenditures -- Electric plant -- Water department -- Municipal docks and terminals -- Signal bureau -- Police department -- Fire department -- Housing Director improved houses/houses razed -- Jax expressway progress --Street improvements -- Extensive paving and drainage program -- Sewer/drainage work -- Airports: Imeson terminal building/Craig/Herlong -- Health department -- City gararge -- Incinerators destroyed garbage/refuse -- Parks/RiverOks/RiversidePark/Boone Park -- Municipal zoo -- Clubhouses at 2 city-owned golf courses/Brentwood/Hyde park -- City prison farm/nursery -- Housing authority -- Waterfront parking project -- Budget for 1956 -- Recreation department/Gator Bowl football stadium/grandstand of new baseball field.
Contents: 1956-57: Mayor Haydon Burns -- Dept. heads -- Proposed city hall -- Proposed sports coliseum -- Sewerage construction program -- Paving/drainage -- Proposed auditorium -- E lectrid dept. -- Water dept. -- Docks/terminals -- Recreation dept/Southside swimming pool -- Pool dept. -- Fire dept./Fire Station no.12 -- Signal bureau -- Housing dept.revamps houses -- Highway dept. -- Health dept. -- City garage maintains motorized equipment -- Parks/Memorial Park -- Golf courses -- Municipal zoo/new concession bldg/monkey island/sealion pool/train ride -- New city prison farm land purchased -- Auditing dept -- Budget for 1957 -- Municipal library -- Housing authority owns/operates 1758 buildings for low-income families/Brentwood Park/Blodgett Homes/Durkeville -- Great Navy center.
Contents: 1958-59: Mayor Haydon Burns -- Departments.
Contents: 1959-60: Mayor Haydon Burns -- Departments.
Contents: 1961-62: Mayor Haydon Burns -- Departments -- Auditorium nears completion -- Southside generating plant -- WJAX -- Aerial ladder --Expressway -- Parks/Hemming -- Zoo/new hippo-rhino exhibits/bear-lion moat -- Imeson/jets begin -- Leisure time/George G. Robinson sports complex/Baseball Suns.
Contents: 1962-63: Mayor Haydon Burns -- Civic Auditorium -- Library patronage soars/ Harry Brinton, Library Director -- Various depts. -- J. Dillon Kennedy/Head of Water/Electric Departments -- Dallas L. Thomas/Commissioner of Finance - Louis H. Ritter/Commisioner of Highways -- Claude Smith, Jr/Commissioner of Health and Sanitation -- Jax Coliseum.
Contents: 1963-64: Mayor Haydon Burns -- Dedication day for City Hall -- WJAX -- Various depts. -- Construction of new library -- Civic Auditorium -- Jax Children's Museum on Riverside Ave. -- Naval Center.Collection
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Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Politics and government., Municipal services -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Burns, Haydon, 1912-1987.Publication Details
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Jacksonville (Fla.)Date Published
1955 - 1964