From the WGHF archives

The view of the Winter Garden lakefront looks somewhat different today than in this 1930s aerial photograph, although many of the older features remain and have been changed considerably. Still with us are the sea wall, the city dock, two boat basins (minus their pier houses), the swimming pool and Trailer City (the tourist facility on the bottom and right sides of the photograph). Today’s Aspen Road and Laurel Drive form the horseshoe-shaped road threading through that development at right. Built during the Great Depression with Works Progress Administration funds secured by Mayor George Walker during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, these civic projects provided jobs and attracted tourists to Winter Garden.