Ask Orlando: How did a Navy training base become Baldwin Park?
By DAVID WHITLEY
ORLANDO SENTINEL (FL)
DECEMBER 30, 2019
There was chaos in the skies over Orlando one morning in December 1942. Dive bombers and paratroopers swooped in from the north.
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Anyway, if that paratrooper were alive today, it’s safe to say he wouldn’t recognize the landing zone, which now features a CVS, a Publix and a Five Guys burgers. That brings us to this week’s Ask Orlando question.
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"The Navy Training Base in what is now Baldwin Park. Why did it close? How did it become Baldwin Park? Why would the Navy build a base in Orlando?"
It is odd that land-locked Orlando was a Naval hub for much of the last century. And if you moved here this century, it’s really hard to grasp how life at Baldwin Park has been transformed.
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For the entire article, see
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/ask-orlando/os-op-ask-orlando-baldwin-park-david-whitley-20191230-xbhofn2ffvbxfcane6j65o2phi-story.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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