Citrus

• Pickers used ladders and citrus bags to pick the ripe fruit.
• There were 8 major growers in the Pinellas area.
• In the 1940’s Pinellas county was #1 in the country for growing and producing grapefruit.
• There is still an orange grove store on the West side of Indian Rocks bridge, Yellow Banks Orange Groves.
• The citrus display is composed of sample products, a ladder ( donated by Roland Martens) used by the pickers to get to the citrus, a citrus bag used by workers to gather the fruit, as well as crates used to ship the fruit. There were 8 major growers in the Pinellas area. All of them had stores on Seminole Blvd. The last store to close was Orange Blossom Groves.