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3 unusual facts about Fort Myers


Bagel Bites

Bagel Bites were invented by Stanley Garczynski and Bob Mosher, both of Fort Myers, Florida, and then later sold to a major food producer.

KLBU

Ken Christensen, chief operating officer of Blu Ventures based in Fort Myers, Florida, was looking to buy a Santa Fe radio station.

WGPS

WGPS-LP, a low-power television station (channel 22) licensed to serve Fort Myers, Florida, United States


Eddie Pearce

Pearce was born in Fort Myers, Florida and grew up in Temple Terrace, Florida, where, as an infant, his first golf club was placed in his hands by the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

Gary A. Lee

He later relocated to Fort Myers, Florida, where he remained active in politics, including serving as Chairman of the Lee County Republican Party.

Heather Fitzenhagen

Heather Fitzenhagen (born October 8, 1960) is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 78th District, which includes central Lee County, namely, Fort Myers, since 2012.

Jacob Summerlin

He used his wealth to purchase large tracts of land sprawling from Fort Meade to Fort Myers.

Michelle Tuzee

Tuzee went on to work at WFTX-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, where she was a reporter and eventually anchor of the nightly newscasts.

SoftServe

The company is headquartered in Lviv, Ukraine and Fort Myers, Florida, while its development offices are located in the Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Sevastopol.

WARP-CD

Broadcasting on a tower on Gandy Boulevard in St. Petersburg, adjacent to Goodwill, WARP broadcasts on an east-west beam, towards central Pinellas County and Tampa, to protect the signals of Gainesville's WCJB-TV and Fort Myers' WBBH-TV, both also broadcasting on channel 20.


see also

Arcadia, Florida

Carlstrom Field, one of several satellite fields in the Fort Myers Area, also trained pilots for the Royal Air Force until its closing in 1945.

Buckingham Army Airfield

As the base was east of the developed area (at the time) of Fort Myers, a seven mile-long railroad spur was constructed between the Seaboard Railroad depot in Fort Myers to Buckingham AAF.

FMHS

Fort Myers Senior High School, a public high school in Fort Myers, Florida, USA

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Madalitso Muthiya

He took up golf at the age of six and at fifteen he caught the attention of Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who helped to arrange for him to play a junior tournament in the United States, the 1999 Nolan Henke/Patty Berg Junior Masters in Fort Myers, Florida.

Punta Rassa, Florida

The 8-mile line branched off the Seaboard's main line, which ran along the west bank of the Ten Mile Canal, in South Fort Myers near where Six Mile Cypress Parkway crosses the canal.

WBBH-TV

The two stations share studio facilities located on Central Avenue in Fort Myers; WBBH's transmitter is located along SR 31 in unincorporated southeastern Charlotte County.

WFSX

WFWN, a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Fort Myers, Florida, United States, which used the call sign WFSX from 2010 until 2013

WGCU

WGCU-FM, a radio station (90.1 FM) licensed to Fort Myers, Florida, United States

WZVN-TV

The station first signed on the air on August 21, 1974 as WEVU (a phonetic translation of "WE VieUW"); it was the third television station to sign-on in Fort Myers.