Here are members of the Davis Island Golf and Tennis Club. Wonder what’s in the bottles? The photo was taken by the famous Tampa photographers on December 20th, 1926. This photo is from ‘Real Women of Tampa & Hillsborough County’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the 1909 line up of football players for the University of Florida Gator team. > . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Sports #Football #FloridaSports #Gators #UF #UniersityOfFlorida
Why would vacationers come to Florida to get in a noisy, electronic ride when they can play shuffleboard? Here families have fun in this photo from a 1957 Florida vacation guide. This photo is from ‘Florida Vacation Guide – 1957’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a undated postcard of Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. It’s still with us, though great altered and enhanced since the time of this postcard. EnClick here to learn more: http://www.gulfstreampark.com/ This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bass fishing was one of the top reasons people were tourists in Florida for nearly a century. This photo, from a 1963 Florida vacation guide, certainly booked many a hotel, charter service or boat rental. Of course, those getting to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This card is from 1962 of the “New Daytona International Speeway”. The back of the card exclaims that the cost of the “finest track in the world” designed for speeds over 200 mph was over $3,000,000. Wow! Has this area[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a postcard from around 1970 from the collection that shows the old Grant Field in Dunedin where the baseball team, the Blue Jays, used to use for Spring Training. The ball field was taken apart and replaced with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The postcard, above, shows City Island in Daytona Beach. The island, just east of Downtown Daytona Beach, has been home of horse and car racing and lots of baseball. American sports history was made when Jackie Robinson played baseball on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Dubsdread’s Tropical Winter Rendezvous” as the back of the postcard states of #Orlando‘s Dubsdread Golf Course. The postcard isn’t postmarked, but appears to be from around 1950.
Here’s a swizzle stick from the Swampy collection from the old Tampa Jai-alai, which shuttered on June 29th, 1998. This swizzle stick is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . #Flordia #Sports #FloridaSports #JaiAlai #FlordiaJaialai #Tampa #TampaFlorida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The book that this is from basically labels this as baseball in Pensacola. Don’t know what team this is or when specifically this is from. From the other photos on the pages around this photo, it would seem this is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…