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.

Downtown Clearwater was bustling with activity during the 1920s. Streets were parked with cars of real estate agents, tourists and prospective buyers busily inspecting the city.

Downtown Clearwater was thriving, too. In photographs of the era, automobiles line the streets, diagonally parked and no empty spaces in sight. “Busy boomtime traffic jammed Clearwater in 1925 as real estate agents, tourists and prospective buyers were busily inspecting the city,” writes photo-historian Michael L. Sanders. The same was true of North Fort Harrison Avenue.

Then, as now, the Coachman Building in downtown Clearwater was a busy center.

Among the commercial buildings on Cleveland Street was the White Way Drug Store, which became the foundation of one of Florida’s fortunes. Three decades later, in 1952, Jack Eckerd made it the first store to bear his family name in what became one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains.

The “corner drugstore” was more than just a business in Clearwater’s “Roaring Twenties.” Michael Sanders writes of this feature of the era: