Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Mei Yin Restaurant, Miami Beach, 1940s.
Mei Yin was a Chinese-American restaurant in Miami Beach. The building still stands and is a Wings beachwear store. You can see it in the map below. View Larger Map
Mei Yin was a Chinese-American restaurant in Miami Beach. The building still stands and is a Wings beachwear store. You can see it in the map below. View Larger Map
The Old Scandia sat right in Downtown Opa-Locka right beside the moorish City Hall. The City Hall building still stands. Unfortunately the restaurant and the building is gone. Click here to read a review of the restaurant from 1950. Here’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who remembers what these were for? Many of us old enough collected many, many of these and stuck them in a stamp book. Then we went to a store and traded them for toasters and lamps. Publix had the Green[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Summer and here’s the special at the City Yacht Basin! $3.35! What a deal! (Of course, it appears this two-sided brochure is about60 years old.)
Above is the back cover of ‘Music’ magazine, Tampa Bay edition, published in May 1986. It’d be tough to pull off a radio promo like that these days. Below is the front cover with jazz artist chick Corea. In today’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the cover of a coloring book celebrating The First National Bank of Tampa, ‘The Tallest Building in Florida”. Below is the back cover. Below that are a couple inside pages. There is no date on the publication, but I’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an undated postcard of the Clearwater Federal Savings building in Largo. This is amongst the many, many, many independent banks now gobbled up by the international banking system. Just by seeing the current view of the building available using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The El Rancho Hotel Court is still there at 7100 Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. Very unfortunately, the sign is gone. The card isn’t postmarked, but judging by the cars in the back of the motel, I’d say this is sometime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are parts of a fold out brochure for the Copacabana Motel in Daytona Beach. I think the lawyers today would advice the Copacabana Motel not to have the image of the folks sitting on the ledge. A search[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an envelope that was available in the Mayflower Hotel in Jacksonville in the 1930s. Top is the front. Below is the back of the envelope.
Some very familiar names to Floridians that grace this 1976 ad for Pompano Square Mall.