Weeki Wachee, city of mermaids : a history of one of Florida's oldest roadside attractions / text by Lu Vickers ; story research and photograph compilation by Sara Dionne ; foreword by Gary R. Mormino and Raymond Arsenault.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-288) and index.
Contents
Florida : a watery dreamscape -- The human fish -- Wakulla : fit palace for Neptune -- Transforming myth into kitsch -- The forties and fifties : Weeki Wachee's glamour shot -- The sixties : from Elvis to Don Knotts -- The seventies : the era of the mouse -- The eighties : the age of acquisition -- The nineties : from the encyclopedia of bad taste to the tails of yesteryear -- The merlinnium : a return to the sublime.