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...City can always go to St. Petersburg, where they can sit on pastel-colored benches in the sun and stare into space, or tell each other what they did yesterday. In St. Pete, they can have their blood pressure taken for 35? at a street-corner booth, or play shuffleboard on 107 courts. They can listen to free band concerts almost any day in the year, or dance most evenings for a quarter, or "Eat Like a King for $1.60"−or less...
...near Phoenix, Ariz., one day last week, a trailer-towing car tooled into the Oasis Mobile Home Park. The driver and his wife gazed appreciatively at the neat flower beds and the swimming pool, the recreation hall and the nine-hole putting green, the croquet court and the three shuffleboard courts. The weekly schedule of activities, posted by the "sunshine girl" or social director, revealed plans for potluck dinner, pinochle games, bridge night, dancing, and classes in ceramics and art. The well-fitted trailers-preferably called mobile homes-were leashed to water lines and TV lines, phone lines and plumbing...
...Jives on husbands' insurance and making the worker bees who serve them miserable with demanding, captious ways and parsimonious tips. Florida has become a boiling melting pot, mixing retired Ohioans with young Michiganders, New Englanders with Hoosiers. The state now boasts not only the world's largest shuffleboard club (in St. Petersburg) but its largest missile testing ground (at Cape Canaveral), and air-conditioned jails for its increasing criminal population, one undesirable byproduct of growth...
...activity. Through its palm-lined streets wafted the strains of Stephen Foster melodies as the cast of the Sun City Minstrel Show rehearsed for its big night. Golfers played on a golf course that meanders through the community, and lawn bowlers practiced body English on the bowling green. The shuffleboard courts were jammed, and so was the community-center swimming pool. Ranged in some 40 different clubs, Sun City residents busily kept their hand in at everything from chess to stone cutting. And-for those who had energy left-there was square dancing in the evening...
...rolling 120 acres outside Buffalo last week, engineers started planning the construction of a $12.5 million apartment hotel and a cluster of small cottages, to be called Rockledge. It will have a pitch-and-putt golf course, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, roof garden, sun deck and an infirmary offering 24-hr, medical service. What sets Rockledge apart from other hotel projects is that it is designed to house only retired people-at a profit. Prices will start at $8,000 to buy a living room-bedroom apartment, plus a $112.50-per-person monthly charge for meals and maintenance. The builders...