Lemon meringue pie at Lucille and Otley's, c. 1965

Material Information

Subjects / Keywords:: Food
Lucille and Otley's (Boynton Beach, Fla.)
Oral histories
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Spatial Coverage:: Florida -- Boynton Beach
Coordinates:: 26.518925 x -80.058799

General Note:: A0048-BB-029
General Note:: A piece of lemon meringue pie on a plate. Historical note: Otley Webb Scott (1912-2002) arrived in Boynton Beach in 1930 with his father Clemons Otley Scott (1884-1962), a farmer and dairyman, and mother Tina Webb Scott (1888-1965). Mary Lucille Tuck (1913-2012) arrived in Boynton Beach in about 1929, with father Benjamin Tuck (1889-1964) and mother Rubye Lucille Tanner Tuck (1892-1975) and her sisters. She repeated her senior year of high school in Boynton School (Class of 1931), where she met her future husband. They married in 1934 and had three children. The couple owned and operated a series of restaurants between 1936-1941, and 1945-1988, including Lucille and Otley's. The restaurant continued to operate under the family's management until 1998. A 1992 Oral History with Lucille and Otley Scott is available at http://boynton-beach.org/library/archives-oralhistory. Topics discussed include their experiences in Boynton Beach during the Great Depression (1930s), the establishment and operation of their restaurant business (1936-1941, 1945-1978), Otley’s experience in the 1928 Hurricane, and Boynton Beach during World War II.