Admiral Lehigh Auction
- Segment
- Admiral Lehigh Auction
- Producing Organization
- WGCU
- Contributing Organization
- WGCU Public Media (Fort Myers, Florida)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/223-49t1gfs3
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- Description
- Description
- br After more than half a century the Admiral Lehigh golf course is closed and the resort will soon face a wrecking ballbut first people will get a chance to bid on its contents. The City of Lehigh Acres literally grew up around the hotel and golf course. Potential real estate buyers from around the world stayed at the hotel in the 1950s and 60s while shopping for a new place to call home in sunny Florida. Jim Davis is one of two auctioneers wholl be calling the 3-day sale. He says he expects the event to draw a big crowd. People love it. People come for entertainment, honestly they do. And theyll buy the strangest things, but they love it. And we have a crowd that follows us for our home auctions that we have at houses for estate sales, well see the same people over and over again." The courses cart barn has been converted into a giant storage shed filled withwell, lots of hotel stuff. TVs and coffee pots by the score are lined up next to stacks of dozens of the same framed golf prints awaiting new homes. The future of the land the golf course and hotel sit on is uncertain. Theres an effort to keep some or all of it as green space, but it is worth much more if developed. The auction kicks off at 10 am Friday and continues over the weekend.
- Rights
- c. WGCU Public Media
- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGCU
Reporter: WGCU Newsroom
Rights Holder: WGCU
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGCU Public Media (WGCU-TV)
Identifier: wgcu10528 (WGCU)
Format: audio/mpeg
Generation: Copy: Access
Duration: 00:04:00?
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Admiral Lehigh Auction,” WGCU Public Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 7, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-223-49t1gfs3.
- MLA: “Admiral Lehigh Auction.” WGCU Public Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 7, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-223-49t1gfs3>.
- APA: Admiral Lehigh Auction. Boston, MA: WGCU Public Media, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-223-49t1gfs3