It’s been over a month since the Marion Theater reopened in all it’s glory. It’s one of a handful of grand dames of the early theatre set in Florida to be showing first run films. The theater originally opened with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Swampy’s Florida Travels
Swampy jumped into the ‘Hands Across the Sand’ in Cocoa Beach on Saturday, June 26th, for one reason: Tourism is more important than endangering our economy and, moreover, the public safety of Florida’s citizens. There sure were a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
… and her name is MA ASHLEY! Here’s a preliminary sketch of a new character entering the strip soon. Ma is a Swamp Ape hunter and is after Swampy. Problem is he ain’t easy to catch and he moves around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inverness – Withlacoochee State Trail
Swampy visits Inverness and the Withlacoochee State Trail located in Liberty Park at the end of North Pine Avenue, north of Hwy 41. At the park is the wonderful train caboose… Across from the caboose is the oldest standing train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here Swampy finds the Southgate sign at the Southgate Shopping Center on US98 in Lakeland. Click here to learn a lot more about the sign and the shopping center from the Lakeland Ledger. Below is a photo of shops inside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…