In 1928, after graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in pharmacy, C. George Hamilton came to Pompano to work at S. C. Fox's drug store on Flagler Avenue.That fall, Hamilton was in the pharmacy when a hurricane hit.

In 1961 he recalled that day:

"It was my first year here and I can still remember watching the top of Kester's building [located on the west side of Dixie Highway]. . . come flying across the railroad tracks toward me. If it hadn't hit an air pocket, and dropped in the track, the bricks would have smashed into the drugstore window."