As so goes another action...
Eileen Zaffiro-Kean
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
DAYTONA BEACH — In 1950, when Harry Truman was president and less than 10% of Americans had a television in their home, a new building went up on Daytona Beach's Boardwalk.
The simple one-story structure was born into the early years of the Boardwalk's zenith when the oceanfront was packed with gift shops, concession stands, a mini-golf course spread across a rooftop, a Ferris wheel and just about every other ride a child could want.
Now that 73-year-old building that was the longtime home of Lisa's Gifts and Joyland arcade is about to fade into local history along with all the other 20th-century Boardwalk structures that have disappeared one by one.
Demolition began early last week on the building that Dino Paspalakis and his family had operated out of since the 1960s.
It's the final chapter in a 20-year legal battle for Paspalakis and his sister Lisa Psaros, who had fought since 2003 against an eminent domain action on the property. The litigation ended in December, and a permit for demolition of their building was filed with the city in January.
And the investment group that owns the property beneath the crumbling building and the connecting land to the south and west
will pursue new opportunities for the site now that it's free from legal entanglements for the first time in two decades.
I smell a Starbucks and a Panera Bread in your future, 
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