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Like many other beaches during the Jim Crow era in the southeastern United States, Lido beach was an all-white beach. On October 2, 1955, about 100 African American residents of the Newtown neighborhood in Sarasota went to Lido Beach to do a wade-in.
The John Ringling Causeway carries SR 789 over Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to St. Armands Key and Lido Key. The 65-foot-tall (20 m) bridge, built in 2003, is a segmental box girder bridge named after John Ringling, one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus and resident of the Sarasota area.
Lido Beach Pool in Sarasota, 1946. Sarasota is home to two swim teams. The Sarasota Sharks have won national championships. A newer team, the Sarasota Tsunami, was founded by the former Sharks head coach and is also nationally competitive. The teams maintain a rivalry. [80]
Lido Beach Casino, Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida, 1937-1940 (with Arthur Saxe, demolished in 1969) Riviera Apartments, Golden Gate Point, Sarasota, Florida, 1941 (demolished) Twitchell Residence at Big Pass, Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida, 1941 (with Paul Rudolph) (dismantled - in storage)
Beaches on Manasota Key suffered most impact, as road washout limits access, but other area beaches also suffered from Hurricane Idalia
Sarasota: St. Armands Key is an island in Sarasota Bay off the west coast of Florida in the United States. ... Lido Key and Lido Beach, to the south; Circus Ring of Fame
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Segregation excluded African Americans from area beaches. In 1951, Newtown residents organized wade-ins to protest their exclusion from Lido Beach and other areas. [1] In 2011, two British tourists were murdered in the area drawing media coverage. [5] In 2021, Sarasota County sought to develop an area of Newtown with multi-family housing. [6]