Women relax under the buttonwood tree in this 1928 photo. The tree still stands at the center of the park in Boca Raton’s Por La Mar. Photo provided by Boca Raton Historical Society BELOW: Sherry, Joshua and Ken Lerner (l-r) with the tree during the annual neighborhood picnic in March. They live in the adjoining Riviera section. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Neighborhood is ‘last vestige of Boca’s beach town ambience’
By Ron Hayes
Por La Mar’s royalty was already present and waiting in dignified silence when members of the Riviera Civic Association began arriving March 8 for their annual picnic in the neighborhood park…