Pt. 4 / Pinellas by the Decades 1932-1941

"TOUGH TIMES BUT CITRUS IS AT ITS PRIME" (54 mins.)
The land boom stalled and stopped in Florida; the Great Depression had strangled the nation at the end of the 1920s. Local relief, recovery, and reform efforts did take place, along with a war declared on mosquitoes and plans for an international war also declared by the end of the 1930s. As developers reshaped the beach communities, agricultural development flourished in the largely rural areas north of St. Petersburg.

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