Sky View Center

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Title

Sky View Center

Alternative Title

Sky View Center

Subject

Orlando (Fla.)

Description

The Sky View Center, a Shell gas station, and a 7-Eleven convenience store in Sky Lake, a residential community and unincorporated area in Orange County, Florida. The divided highway at the foreground is most likely U.S. Route 441 (US 441), also known as Orange Blossom Trail (OBT). The building on the far right is Sky Bowl.

Sky Lake is located approximately seven miles south of Downtown Orlando between Lancaster Road and Sand Lake Road. The community was developed in late 1950s and 1960s by Hymen Lake. Houses originally sold in the range of $10,000 to $15,000. In the 1970s, Sky Lake became one of the first housing developments to be racially integrated. The community was originally proposed to include one thousand homes within the middle of the square mile block and a ring of commercial developments along the perimeter.

Creator

DeWitt, Fred

Source

Original 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph by Fred DeWitt: Pine Castle Historical Society, Pine Castle, Florida.

Date Created

ca. 1962-1965

Date Copyrighted

ca. 1962-1965

Date Submitted

186 KB

Contributor

Lake, Harriett

Is Format Of

Digital reproduction of original 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph by Fred DeWitt.

Is Part Of

Sky Lake Collection, Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

Format

image/jpg

Medium

8 x 10 inch black and white photograph

Language

eng

Type

Still Image

Coverage

Sky View Center, Sky Lake, Florida
7-Eleven, Sky Lake, Florida
Sky Bowl, Sky Lake, Florida

Accrual Method

Donation

Mediator

History Teacher
Geography Teacher

Provenance

Originally created by Fred DeWitt.

Rights Holder

Copyright to this resource is held by Fred DeWitt and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Curator

Barnes, Mark

Digital Collection

Source Repository

External Reference

Tracy, Jane. "Harriett and Hymen Lake .'" Orlando Memory, March 11, 2014, http://dc.ocls.info/memory/image/harriett-and-hymen-lake.

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

1 black and white photograph

Physical Dimensions

8 x 10 inches

Collection

Citation

DeWitt, Fred, “Sky View Center,” RICHES, accessed March 29, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/7028.

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