21 Facts About SA Lynch

SA Lynch stood out in his youth as a football and baseball star, and was coaching and managing professionally by his early 20s.

SA Lynch served the head football and baseball coach at Maryville University in Maryville, Tennessee, from 1902 to 1903.

SA Lynch was married twice, first to Flora Camilla Posey, who obtained a divorce from SA Lynch in 1924, and later to Julia Dodd Adair, an Atlanta socialite, whom he married in 1925.

From 1909 through the early nineteen teens, SA Lynch continued to acquire movie theaters at a prodigious rate.

SA Lynch maintained a relatively low profile in his dealings with Paramount.

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SA Lynch, who was already a heavy Paramount shareholder having obtained Hodkinson's stock following his ouster in 1916 following the merger of Paramount into Famous Players Lasky, convinced Paramount to form a new company with him, Southern Enterprises, Inc The purpose of Southern Enterprises was to take over SA Lynch's exclusive distribution franchise and to acquire theaters in order to repel the First National challenge.

SA Lynch organized Southern Enterprises of Texas, Inc, capitalized by Paramount and its financial backers, and began buying up theaters throughout Texas and Oklahoma.

Ultimately, SA Lynch's tactics gave rise to controversy and disputes with Paramount.

SA Lynch was brought out of retirement during Paramount's 1933 bankruptcy to deal with its theater holdings.

SA Lynch later assumed control of Paramount's South Florida theater operations, which he ran until 1945 when he retired for the second and final time from active involvement in the motion picture industry.

SA Lynch notably created the Sunset Islands, a series of four man made islands in Biscayne Bay just north of the Venetian Islands, Star Island, Palm Island and Hibiscus Island.

SA Lynch purchased the partially finished hotel out of an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding commenced against the bond underwriter that had financed the hotel's construction.

SA Lynch's actions were ultimately vindicated when he prevailed in the lawsuit.

The presiding judge found that SA Lynch explicitly made no representations, and the bondholder's committee, which was represented by able and sophisticated businessmen, simply found that it had made a bad deal.

SA Lynch had the resources to hold the Sunset Islands lots off the market and wait for conditions to improve.

SA Lynch himself built a residence on the southwest corner of Sunset II named "Sunshine Cottage, " which was featured on tour-boat rides to see houses of the rich and famous.

For several years during the early 1950s, SA Lynch waged a furious court battle in an effort to take over control of the Florida East Coast Railway, which was then in receivership.

SA Lynch ultimately lost out to Ed Ball representing the DuPont family interests.

SA Lynch had a brief stint at Davidson College in 1903 as a coach and player for its baseball team, and later, in 1922, SA Lynch bought the minor league professional baseball team the Atlanta Crackers.

SA Lynch, on board Rival, was a competitor of Rod Stephens, father of the famous yacht designer Olin Stephens.

SA Lynch turned his attention to the houseboats built by the Mathis Yacht Building Company.