Boca By the numBers Population size: Total city area: Beach frontage: Natural beachfront: Parks: Average annual temperature:
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84,392 119,300 29.1 5 2.5 1,500 75 $74,105 41.1 2.5 219 535 61
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a Boca Only in Boca can you find Red Reef Park Executive Golf Course, a nine-hole layout with water as far as the eye can see. The public course has views of the ocean and the Intracoastal and isn’t as easy as it looks (1111 N. Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/391-5014). Other nearby courses include Boca Raton Executive Country Club (7601 E. Country Club Blvd., 561/99794100), Southwinds Golf Course, (19557 Lyons Road, 561/483-1305), Boca Raton Municipal City Golf Course (8111 Golf Course Road, 561/483-6100) and Boca Dunes Golf & Country Club (1400 Country Club Drive, 561/451-1600).
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Clarence H. Geist buys the Cloister Inn for $71,000 at a courthouse auction and assumes $7 million of Mizner Development Corp.’s debt.
Boca Raton’s first airport, spearheaded by Clarence Geist, is built as a New Deal Works Progress Administration project.
With the United States involved in World War II, the Army takes over Boca Raton Club for offices, classrooms and officers’ barracks.
J. Meyer Schine buys the Boca Raton Club and Spanish River Land Co. from Clarence Geist’s estate. The club reopens as Boca Raton Hotel & Club in 1945.
The Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce is founded.
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