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Sarasota News Leader February 15, 2013 Page 73 ���Houston has oil. Silicon Valley has real smart people ��� Tampa has ��� nothing. But we have beautiful beaches and natural beauty and wonderful year-round weather, and for 100 years, people have been moving here and real estate has been the story,��� Plunket pointed out. town motto, ���May Sarasota Prosper,������ LaHurd said. ���Now in 1902, nobody knew where we were, or if they did know where we were, they couldn���t get here, so it was a very difficult situation. We had the beaches; we had the beautiful climate, but [progress] didn���t just happen ���In 1902, 53 men got together on the old dock automatically. What it took to happen were and voted to create a town and chose as the some visionary capitalists,��� LaHurd continued. The Ca�� d���Zan, John and Mable Ringling���s mansion, was designed by Dwight James Baum. Photo by Taty2007, via Wikipedia Common