In the "old days" virtually all Pompano residents had fruit trees in their yards.

Many of the old citrus trees are gone, having fallen victim to the citrus canker eradication program. There are still plenty of mango trees around (in spite of Hurricane Wilma's best efforts) and avocado trees are not that uncommon.

Still, there use to be a much wider variety of fruits growing in people's yards: guavas, surinam cherries, mulberries, sapodillas and sugar apples, to name just a few. You rarely see any of them today.