Jackie Zorn on Ocean Drive in 1960.
Future generations will probably never know the name Jackie Zorn. They won’t see it plastered on the buildings Jackie built or the businesses Jackie started. They won’t find it on city street maps or in state tour books. They should; but they won’t.
Most people who knew Jackie Zorn say she would have wanted it that way. She died nine years ago with remarkably little fanfare.
Never mind that Ocean Drive’s “first lady” almost single-handedly pioneered the beachside shopping district. She never needed praise, though she seemed always to hunger for a protégé. “Jackie was an eternal optimist and loved to help people get started,” says beach businessman Rich Bireley.
Read the entire article in the Summer 1999 issue
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