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U.S. Naval Air Station at Vero Beach used the eighty-acre McKee Jungle Gardens between 1943 – 1945 for Jungle Survival Training for its Pilots Bound for the South Pacific.
Waldo Sexton built the Hall of Giants at McKee Jungle Gardens for the 35-foot-long table that first came to the U.S. in 1904 for the World's Fair
The choices made by McKee Botanical Garden developer Waldo Sexton — quirky, eclectic, eccentric — seem to me part of an era of Florida tourism shaped not by corporations but by the personalities of visionaries.