page_title: Timeline of Largo, Florida history
section_title: 1946–1970
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Largo, Florida history / 1946–1970
caption_attribution_description: English: 1977 Largo Library building.
context_page_description: This is a timeline of history of the city of Largo, Florida, United States.
context_section_description: 1946 Largo Public Library has more than 3,000 books. Supreme Court orders Largo to pay bond debts resulting in  37 mil ad valorem tax rate.  (LBBC, p. 65)
  1948 Largo Theater on West Bay Drive. Largo gets its first police car. Police department begins to expand. (LBBC, p. 119)
  1950 Cigarette tax eases financial burden. Population 1,547.(PCPD, p. 12)  Police operate out of one room police station.  (LBBC, pp. 67, 119)
  1952 Pinellas Central Bank (later, Southeast First Bank of Largo) opens—Largo's first bank since the Great Depression. Mildred Helms Elementary opens. (LBBC, pp. 67)
  1954 Pinellas Shopping Center opens.
  1955 Annexation referendum results in tripling of Largo's area and population. (LBBC, pp. 67)
  1957 Largo High School opens new campus on Missouri Avenue.
  1958 Largo Public Library has 1450 patrons and a circulation of 14,000. (LBBC, p. 116)
  1959 Largo Police crisis. In a closed session, the  Commission  votes 3–2 to allow the City Manager to fire the Police Chief. Public uproar results in the recall of those commissioners who voted to fire the Police Chief. The new Commission fires the City Manager and rehires the Police Chief. Citizen's committee builds new police station and donates it to the City. (LBBC, pp. 120, 128)
  1960  Largo's population is 5,302. (PCPD, p. 12) Largo begins construction on new Library building. Largo Recreation Department formed.  (LBBC, p. 116)
  1962 Town Hall built at 296 1st Avenue SW. (LAHS 2005, p. 90) Largo Library building opens.  (LBBC, p. 116)
  1962- December – 1963- January Worst freeze in over 100 years, combined with  urbanization and rising property tax assessments, severely stresses citrus industry. (LBBC, p. 71)
  1965 Largo proclaimed "Clean Air Capital" by Chamber of Commerce. (LBBC, pp. 75)
  1966 Largo Police Department has 22 officers.  (LBBC, p. 120)
  1968 Last year ad valorem taxes levied until 1972.  Largo Recreation department has two facilities—the Largo Club Center and the Auditorium built during the Depression by the WPA. (LAHS 2005, p. 128)
  1969 Largo Public Library's circulation is ~125,000.  (LBBC, p. 116) February 11* Greater Largo Recreation Complex and Park Development Board appointed.
  1970  Largo's population is 24,230.(PCPD, p. 12) Largo Fire Department begins phase out of volunteer fire fighters.
caption: 1977 Largo Library building in July 2006.
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