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The first mosquito
                                                                                               spraying truck in
                                                                                               Naples. These trucks,
                                                                                               predecessors to planes
                                                                                               and helicopters,
                                                                                               were used for several
                                                                                               decades to help
                                                                                               control the bugs.
                                                                                               Neighborhood kids
                                                                                               used to run behind
                                                                                               the trucks as they
                                                                                               slowly went down the
                                                                                               street, belching flames
                                                                                               and a thick white
                                                                                               DDT smoke out the
                                                                                               rear.











                                                                                               The first jail in
                                                                                               Naples, known as the
                                                                                               PawPaw Patch, built
                                                                                               in the early 1940’s. It
                                                                                               had two jail cells.
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