Who built the Voo Swar?
Eventually the Voo Swar, and the man who built it and ran it for decades, Earnest Davis, would bring this beach town together in ways no mayor or civic leader ever had. “Mr. E,” Earnest Davis, built the Voo Swar with steel from the demolished Atlantic Beach Hotel, built in 1901, seating from the demolished Le Chateau Restaurant, built in 1937, ...
What did Howell know about the voussoir?
Maybe Howell knew what a voussoir was, how the wedge-shaped stones held together an arch, and how Earnest Davis had named his tavern for the keystone. As Davis would later tell Cohill and Hoffman, “Voo Swar mean, it’s like a archway. It’s the stone that locks all the other stones in, what they call a keystone. And it’s the strongest point.” Maybe Howell wondered what would happen to the edifice of Atlantic Beach if you pushed out its keystone.
Did Atlantic Beach want the Voo Swar?
Such strange ironies. For years Atlantic Beach didn’t want the Voo Swar, even tried actively to run it out of town. Yet the passage of time does strange things to the plots of our lives and the lives of whole communities. Eventually the Voo Swar, and the man who built it and ran it for decades, Earnest Davis, would bring this beach town together in ...
