Swampy #Florida Live: … Quiet along the Suwannee River too!
Archive for Swampy’s Florida Travels
The First United Methodist Church in Pensacola is the oldest Methodist church built 1821. Below are other photos of the exterior. The last photo is of Swampy inside the church where an antique show was happening. Found postcards soon to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finding Florida goodies at an antique show in the oldest Methodist Church in Pensacola. More about that tomorrow.
Swampy Live: in Pensacola with Swampy’s good friend Mia Hughes who’s holding a prototype of a Swampy doll that’ll be available real soon!
Swampy is in Tom Staley Park in Apopka. In this park sits the area that used to be the train turnaround for the Florida Midland Railway that ran through Apopka in the 1890s. The picture below us part of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy Live: Swampy visited Robinswood Middle School east of Orlando during their Family Literacy Event giving a talk about Florida History. Here is organizer Valerie Moore and Diana (Who dressed as Clifford the dog) and Valerie’s daughter (in disguise).
Swampy Live: Swampy is currently riding with a flock of cartoonists entertaining service men and women around Florida during the first official USO National Cartoonists Society tour of Florida. Started in Tampa at MacDill Air Force Base. After a trip[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits Charley’s Steak House in Tampa. Charley’s came to be after Charley Woodsby broke away from William Darden and the chain they started, Red Lobster. Charley and his son Ron began, what would be known as, Charley’s Steak House[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Sunday Services: Beulah Missionary Baptist Church, Dunnellon
Unfortunately, the church doesn’t have a website and there are no markings on the buildinbg telling when the building was built. I’d guess the 1920s. I took this photo there was no one there to ask about the church. I’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Jacksonville Lanes on eastern Beach Road in Jacksonville. What a bowling alley sign should look like. The location has 32 lanes, diner, pool tables and other amenities. The very friendly employee behind the counter wan’t sure when the alleys[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The A.W. Peterson Gun Shop opened in 1886 in Denver, Colorado. In 1954 the business packed up it’s Colorado location and moved it to Mount Dora, Florida. It’s been here ever since! The wooden interior with a full array of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most don’t think of farms when they think of Lake Mary. Swampy found one in the midst the the original Lake Mary area by the railroad tracks.