"There go the last two orange growers," remarked Welf, glumly.
The high school was built in 1958 on the land owned by Clarks Gordan, an orange grower.
Mr. Hancock spent the last decade of his life as a cattle rancher, orange grower, real estate developer and philanthropist.
He also became an orange grower and spent the last years of his life in Florida.
Water rose five feet at Shell Island and ruined the crops of the pecan and orange growers there.
Isabu's orange growers now average 60 years of age - in line with the national average for farmers across Japan.
Florida lawmakers want safeguards to protect orange growers who fear a surge of Mexican citrus.
The United Farm Workers again took the side of the orange growers during this time.
Many of the orange growers were pushed into the change by an infestation of citrus canker, but not all.
Ryotaro Nishigaya, an orange grower here, agreed, saying, "Talk about freezing construction is outrageous."