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29: Lido Isle — The Island No One Wanted

29: Lido Isle — The Island No One Wanted

Update: 2023-01-18
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For more than six decades beginning in the 1880s. Lido Isle went through a series of owners (most of whom got the island basically for free) and failed developments before—in the latter part of the 20th Century—it turned into some of the most coveted real estate on the West Coast.  

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29: Lido Isle — The Island No One Wanted

29: Lido Isle — The Island No One Wanted