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To: inflorida
http://www.boktower.org/

Long story short - the surroundings outside of the Bok Tower Sanctuary and Gardens - constitute the town of "Mountain Lake" which was one of the very first gated communities in the entire US. There's a lot of "old money" there - the people who bought property there in the early 1900's were the tycoons and the "robber barons" like the Rockefellers, etc. My dad still maintains his locksmithing business and regularly services locks on the estate homes, so he gets paid with checks written on all the NY & Chicago high-powered banks ;-).

48 posted on 04/23/2003 8:53:12 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
We loved the Bok Tower Sanctuary and Garden. At 3:00 they played the bells and it was beautiful. If we lived closer we would definitely become annual members.
51 posted on 04/23/2003 8:55:42 AM PDT by inflorida
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