So declared a song published in the Riomar News, a weekly publication for the months of January, February and March that was started in the 1920s by 11-year-old George Fitch, and Will Harrar and Allis Beaumont, age 9. The song became the theme of the Riomar colony in the 1930s.
There may have been a depression and a real estate bust in the rest of the country but at the beginning of the ’30s in Riomar, things were really hopping. Houses that were being built as the Roaring ’20s came to a close were occupied, and a new clubhouse opened in 1935 which became the hub of the colony’s many activities.
Riomar was started in 1919 by three doctors from Cleveland, John Sawyer, Secord Large and W. T. Humiston, who wanted a place to relax and enjoy the beach, a good golf course and fishing.
Read the entire article in the March 2007 issue
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