Air raid wardens and an Air Observer Corps were set up to help the city defend itself “against bombing raids from Germany or Japan.” By December 31, practice blackouts were staged on Friday nights between 9 and 9:30 p.m., creating an eerie scenario as fog shrouded the empty streets of downtown Clearwater. All street lights, stop lights, store lights and residence lights were extinguished. Car traffic stopped as drivers waited for the blackout to pass.
Part Ten: Clearwater Pitches in
Recommended Reading: Clearwater: a Pictorial History, by Michael L. Sanders; Yesterday’s Clearwater, by Hampton Dunn; a History of Pinellas County, By W.L. Straub; and Clearwater: a Sparkling City, by Roy Cadwell.
We are working on the next editions of the series to bring it up to the present. If your life, or your family’s or your neighbor’s is an interesting chapter in Clearwater history, please write to Freedom Magazine c/o Church of Scientology, 503 Cleveland Street 33755, or call (727) 467-6860 or e-mail coscw@scientology.org.
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