“Your Community Shopping Center” in WPB and “Looking Eastward Across Lake Worth” at Town of Palm Beach.

Have you joined the Facebook group called “Palm Beaches Remembered”? If local history is an interest of yours, strongly suggest you begin following this Facebook page. Many of the “memories” will truly amaze you.

Below are two more images from
Palm Beaches Remembered.

Expect many new and exciting things to happen in the next few months and years at and nearby “Your Community Shopping Center” in West Palm Beach. Once again, this plaza will be a vibrant part of our community and neighborhoods in WPB and the City of Lake Worth much like it was 50 years ago.

“Where Lake Worth Meets West Palm Beach” in 1968.

Click on image to enlarge, PALM COAST PLAZA.
Notice all the shops!

In September 2015 Post reporter Tony Doris provided hints about the future of this plaza on Dixie Hwy., north of the City of Lake Worth, just across the C-51 Canal.

Tony Doris’ article was titled, “Homes, links to area and water among options for WPB golf course”:

“The [West Palm Beach] city commission, by general consensus, authorized Economic Development Director Chris Roog to continue pursuing redevelopment plans for the 8111 S. Dixie property and the golf course. [emphasis added] The commission also indicated its willingness to work with the adjacent Palm Coast Plaza owners in coordinating redevelopment plans.” 

“Palm Coast Plaza Store!”

This plaza was once a regional destination, serving West Palm Beach and other nearby cities and towns, e.g., Lake Worth and Palm Beach.

And also interestingly, a few months later (in December of 2015) Post reporter Eliot Kleinberg wrote this article titled, “[Boat] Lift at spillway would allow boat traffic from inland lakes to ocean”, referring to a project that is now called the Blueway Trail project (expected to begin in 3–5 years).

Now to “Looking Eastward Across Lake Worth”.

Back in the day there was a body of water the public called “Lake Worth”. Of course, this is what we call the Lake Worth Lagoon now, part of the Intracoastal waterway.

This image is c. 1940:

For some perspective, use this link for a photograph taken from the former Pennsylvania Hotel in West Palm Beach in 1937. The former Royal Worth
Hotel was prominent in the Town of Palm Beach
“back in the day”.

As far as “Lake Worth” goes, to this day some still call the Lake Worth Lagoon ‘Lake Worth’:


“The Avenue [Worth Avenue in Palm Beach], which encompasses four blocks between the Atlantic Ocean and the edge of Lake Worth [emphasis added] as well as its pedestrian side-street vias, was founded in the 1920s by Addison Mizner and boasts more than 200 shops, restaurants and galleries that epitomize the best of high-end merchandise and lavish amenities.”