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…Miss Florida Came Home to Boca Raton!
“The largest mid-summer celebration ever held in South Palm Beach County*” kicked off on July 29, 1957 when Miss Florida Dorothy Steiner’s helicopter (on loan from megadeveloper Arthur Vining Davis) touched down at the Boca Raton Club Golf Course.
It was a homecoming for Miss Steiner, recently crowned in Sarasota, and her hometown crowd turned out in force with a motorcade to City Hall, where Boca mayor John Shores presented the new Miss Florida with the key to the city.
“The Florida Citrus Queen and a number of other beauties” showed up to “pay homage to the new Queen of Florida.*”
At the 1958 Miss America Pageant, held in Atlantic City on September 7, 1957, Dorothy Steiner was fourth runner-up for the national title. Her talent segment was a dramatic reading, “Such is Your Heritage.”
*WTVJ News script, July 29, 1957.
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This clip is derived from news film in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number TVN0339-1280-09; airdate July 29, 1957…(read more at source)
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This clip shows Dorothy Steiner, Miss Florida, on the final leg of her journey home to Boca Raton from the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. She flew from Sarasota to Boca on Arthur Vining Davisâs helicopter.
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