WPLA Cookbook #5 1980
WPLA Radio 910 AM Plant City, FL

AM Radio Station WPLA, for many years known as Your Community Station, signed on the air in July of 1949 at 1570 kilocycles, and was licensed to serve the Plant City area from offices and studios at 1507 South Collins Street. The Federal Communications Commission authorized WPLA’s owner, local Plant City businessman W.A. Smith, to operate it as a daytime facility, meaning it could broadcast only from sunrise to sunset. In the mid 1950’s, Mr. Smith realized the station could reach a larger audience if it had a better dial position, so he filed an application with the FCC and was granted approval in 1956 for WPLA to switch to 910 kilocycles. Mr. Smith continued to own the station until 1974 when he sold it to his son, Ercelle, and General Manager, Al Berry.
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There were 29 advertisers in the cookbook. There are only 2 that are still in business, they are
Hoof & Horns Butcher,  Parksdale Farm Market.

There are 27 that are out of business or no longer run by the same people when the book was printed.
First National Bank,  McGinnes Lumber,  Ussery's Sewing Center,  City Glass & Marine,  Richey Refrigeration,  Papertree Restaurant,  Bonnie's Flower Shop,  Pretty Lady Produce,  Market Restaurant,  Elliott's Bait & Tackle,  Nu-Way Cleaners,  Refrigeration Repair Service,  Hickman's Lawn Mowers,  Elston Insurance, Lykes Meat Packers,  Firestone Tire Store,  Bob White Paneling,  Sam's General Store,  Franklin's Carpets,  Randall Hinson's Amoco,  Edgar Hull Jewelers,  Hall's Feed and Western Wear,  Prestige Printing, Dover Bi Lo,   Dan Harvill's Badcock Store,  Burger Chef & Sunshine State Federal Saving & Loan.

WPLA Radio 910 AM Cookbook #5 FRONT COVER

First National Bank of Florida In Plant City * 1971 Cookbook winner C. M. Mize

page 72 Index writing on page was my mother's Oneita Waller * page 73 Sunshine State Federal Savings & Loan

Back Cover Of WPLA #5 Cookbook Burger Chef of Plant City

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The pages below are for those of you that want to view the cookbook as a gallery by turning pages (Click arrow on upper right of page)

Names that can be found in the cookbook, C. M. Mize, Jean Barker Weaver, Genevieve Jewett, Sandra Davidson, Merrill R. Stephan, Ann M. Spanola, Amelia Shearouse, Nancy Miles Ross, Joyce Downs, Nancy L. Maynard, Dorothy Ploegert, Melba Weatherington, Betty Craven, Hilda Pellens, Mildred Olinger, Marion Freeman, Lois Roark, Doretha Adams, May Morrow, Helen Freed, Cobi Stilliman, Kate Plyn, Cynthia Weis, Katrina Bracewell, Brenda Lytle, Mrs. Ray Gatrell, Doris Smith, Frances Ottaviani, Mary Garrett, Mary Ann Sasnett, Rubleen Haynes, Mrs Al Berry, Ester Seeman, Evelyn C. Cloer, Mrs Floyd Foster, Vera Anderson, Alice Holcomb, Hobo Bob Smithson, Angelo Crispino, Kate Pyln, Idella Jordan, E. McFadden, Oma Harman, Marie Smithson, Erma Boone, Betty Craner, Cathy Browning, Mrs Robert L. Utz, Jane Garrett, Pensacola, Florida. Linda Weatherington, Mayno Hart, Barbara Herlong, Brandon FL. Deborah Loetscher, Mrs Walter Stiles, Mrs Louis Ploegert, Mildred Horton, Cathy Brown, Ann Tangorra, Margaret S. Pizza, Joanna Rocco, Mrs M. H. Neely, Burger Chef of Plant City, Sunshine State Federal Savings & Loan, Dan Harvill's Badcock Furniture, Dover Bi-Lo, Prestige Printing, Hall's Feed & Western Store, Edgar Hull Jeweler, Randall Hinson's Amaco & Snapper Mowers, Franklin's Carpet, Sam's General Store, Bob White Paneling, Firestone Store, Lykes Brothers, Hickman's Lawn Mowers, Parkesdale Farm Market, Nu-Way Cleaners, Elston Insurance, Ace Hardware, Plant City Growers Association, Elliott's Bait & Tackle, Market Restaurant, Pretty Lady Produce, Gent Bethune's Papertree Restaurant, City Glass & Marine, Ussery's Sewing Center, Bobby Stalvey Hoof & Horn, McGinnes Lumber, First National Bank of Florida, First National Bank of Plant City, Aunt Maggie,