The Oldsmar Band with Harry E. Prettyman as leader drums up boomtime business (in 1925) for Oldsmar, Florida, “the Suburb of two cities – Tampa and St. Petersburg.”

He writes in his book Things I Remember—1899-1979: “When you tell someone today that a man could subdivide a 40-acre tract into 160 to 200 lots, most anywhere between Clearwater and St. Petersburg, spend a few hundred dollars on advertising and auction and sell all of the lots in two or three hours, they wonder. About 99 percent of those lots were for sale as soon as the buyer had a title.”

By contrast, in the early 30s he could not sell his hogs or cattle; the prices were the lowest in history. He owned about 350 acres in 1933. He comments ruefully about the land, saying, “but you could not eat it, neither could you sell it for any money and there was very little change in conditions for at least six years.”

But Clearwater’s affluence of the 1920s boom forever left its mark upon the city and surrounding area. Homes were built and residential areas such as Harbor Oaks were developed. One of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture from this era is the 1921 Bucknall home which still sits atop the bluff overlooking Clearwater Harbor.

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