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Newspaper Article
An island divided, but colorful
2005
Overview
[Harry Varley] was editor, owner and chief agitator of The Islander, a spritely, slick-paper weekly in the mid-'50s, when I first came to town happily ready to lead everybody out of the wilderness. I'm not sure -- he may also have been the founder. But, all due respects to present and other previous owners and publishers, it was in its effervescent heyday then as the Island publication. Varley was retired president of the Schick Razor Co. He wanted you to understand that what he referred to was the real Schick razor, that intriguing small-blade shaving instrument to which its users (I was one until I could afford the electric brand) tended to be addicted. To him the electrified version was only a glorified version of barber's shears. [Anna Maria] city has occasionally provided the news from the Island, but neither it nor Bradenton Beach ever cottoned to the idea of an island potentially controlled by Holmes Beach. That center part of the Island was last to develop, though it once hosted a filming crew for a movie with Esther Williams in it. A developer named Jack Holmes built a good many houses in it and under circumstances which predated my arrival got it incorporated and named for himself. Varley, and a few others out there, never accepted this as just, reasonable or permanent.
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Halifax Media Group
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