TABLE of CONTENTS (To read an article click on the photo from the menu above)
1. The making of Playboy's "The Naked Ape"
2. Fallout Shelters: the selling of Doomsday
3. JFK in Tampa, Four Days before Dallas
4. Roby Yonge: Rise and fall of a Top-40 hero
5. Peace at last for family twice cursed
6. The making of PT-109
7. Cotton Watts:The last blackface
8. The last public appearance of Al Capone
9. The murderous reign of the Ashley Gang
10. The day I defeated Joe Frazier
11. Sal Maglie, the night before Larsen
12. Jackie Gleason brings network TV to Florida
13. Gleason hosts Inverarry Classic, 1972-80
14. Jack Nicklaus moves his family to Florida
15. Golf's only two majors on Florida soil.
16 Oliver Hardy: Education of a funnyman
17. The stamp collection that WASN'T stolen
18. The family that lived in an elevator shaft
19. Youngstown train wreck a deadly mystery
20. The Case of the Purloined Poster
21. First-ever football game between UF, FSU
22. The Great Spring Break Scandal of 1929
23. The 1967 Ft. Lauderdale spring break riots
24. Little Ray and Dirty Lenny
25. The spring training homer that changed baseball history
26. Babe Ruth's love affair with Florida
27. Presidential politicking in Florida's panhandle
28. The death of downtown Louisville
29. Rediscovering the first winner of the Sherman Invitational after 75 years
30. Olympic hero and heavyweight champ
31. Thomas Fortune, civil rights pioneer
32. She met the Beatles
33. Little Tournament of Champions: Stars of the PGA Tour come to Bay County
34. Nellis Johnson made sure we saw humor
35. A tale of two aviators
36. The Houdini family visits Panama City
37. Rutherford Rams win their first Big-5 crown
38. Top 9 ways 9-Ball is just like life
39. Fred Turner and Gideon v Wainwright
40. World's tallest man...and worst actor
41. The Great Radio Station Sting of 1958
42. Did "We Were Strangers" trigger the JFK assassination?
43. The Cove Hotel: 50 years, dust to ashes
44. The last flight of Edwin Gorbet
45. Stephen Stills: Rock's museum piece
46. The DeLorean, still turning heads
47. Clinton impostor...ker-ching!
48. Dec.31, 1899...millennium-obsessed?
49. Odds 'n' Ends from a reporter's notebook
50. A "Riddle" for Panama City baseball fans
51. The Last Rebel Yell: a six-part series on the history of Class-D baseball in Panama City.
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A volume of Brooks' columns from FORE Magazine is now available as a Kindle single.
2. Fallout Shelters: the selling of Doomsday
3. JFK in Tampa, Four Days before Dallas
4. Roby Yonge: Rise and fall of a Top-40 hero
5. Peace at last for family twice cursed
6. The making of PT-109
7. Cotton Watts:The last blackface
8. The last public appearance of Al Capone
9. The murderous reign of the Ashley Gang
10. The day I defeated Joe Frazier
11. Sal Maglie, the night before Larsen
12. Jackie Gleason brings network TV to Florida
13. Gleason hosts Inverarry Classic, 1972-80
14. Jack Nicklaus moves his family to Florida
15. Golf's only two majors on Florida soil.
16 Oliver Hardy: Education of a funnyman
17. The stamp collection that WASN'T stolen
18. The family that lived in an elevator shaft
19. Youngstown train wreck a deadly mystery
20. The Case of the Purloined Poster
21. First-ever football game between UF, FSU
22. The Great Spring Break Scandal of 1929
23. The 1967 Ft. Lauderdale spring break riots
24. Little Ray and Dirty Lenny
25. The spring training homer that changed baseball history
26. Babe Ruth's love affair with Florida
27. Presidential politicking in Florida's panhandle
28. The death of downtown Louisville
29. Rediscovering the first winner of the Sherman Invitational after 75 years
30. Olympic hero and heavyweight champ
31. Thomas Fortune, civil rights pioneer
32. She met the Beatles
33. Little Tournament of Champions: Stars of the PGA Tour come to Bay County
34. Nellis Johnson made sure we saw humor
35. A tale of two aviators
36. The Houdini family visits Panama City
37. Rutherford Rams win their first Big-5 crown
38. Top 9 ways 9-Ball is just like life
39. Fred Turner and Gideon v Wainwright
40. World's tallest man...and worst actor
41. The Great Radio Station Sting of 1958
42. Did "We Were Strangers" trigger the JFK assassination?
43. The Cove Hotel: 50 years, dust to ashes
44. The last flight of Edwin Gorbet
45. Stephen Stills: Rock's museum piece
46. The DeLorean, still turning heads
47. Clinton impostor...ker-ching!
48. Dec.31, 1899...millennium-obsessed?
49. Odds 'n' Ends from a reporter's notebook
50. A "Riddle" for Panama City baseball fans
51. The Last Rebel Yell: a six-part series on the history of Class-D baseball in Panama City.
_____________________________
A volume of Brooks' columns from FORE Magazine is now available as a Kindle single.