Family-owned Evans & Sons Fine Jewelers still shines after nearly 50 years in Daytona Beach Jim Abbott, The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Allan Brewer, of Evans & Son Fine Jewelers, talks about the shop s Daytona Beach history
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DAYTONA BEACH As a young man at the dawn of the 1970s, Allan Brewer had dreams of traveling the world as a commercial airline pilot, a goal that inspired him to move from his family’s home in Baltimore to study at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Instead, he fell in love with Daytona Beach.
In 1975, Brewer helped his family move their successful jewelry business to the World’s Most Famous Beach. More than 45 years later, Brewer and his mother, Chris Evans, still showcase diamonds, gold, antique and period treasures at Evans & Son Fine Jewelers, a Beach Street fixture for decades.
Sun Viking Lodge marks 50 years in Daytona Beach Shores
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES For Gary and Barbara Brown, longtime owners of the Sun Viking Lodge, the hotel’s office is a home away from home.
Actually, in the early part of the hotel’s 50 years as a beachfront fixture, the office really was the couple’s home, where they simultaneously raised two children and handled the phone calls, front desk, laundry, leaky faucets, midnight emergencies and other innkeeper duties.
“This used to be my kitchen,” Barbara said, ushering a guest past desks where hotel staff members answer phones and type on computers. Around another corner, she points down a hall to a space that was once a bedroom for the Browns’ son Greg, now the hotel’s general manager.
Seasonal visitors absent in Volusia; hotels hopeful vaccine rollout helps travel
Snowbirds staying north this winter
Normally approximately half-a-million Canadian tourists flock to Central Florida. This year, the pandemic travel restrictions have kept many of the so-called snowbirds away.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Some Volusia County hotels held out hope for seasonal visitors but with the winter season in full swing, occupancy rates are suffering.
FOX 35 News first talked with Andrew Hands, owner of Ocean Court Motel, in mid-November. He was hopeful some of his Canadian tourism, which he says make a big part of his profit would turn out.