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The Citrus Tower in Clermont. – Swampy’s Florida Monday Postcards.
on November 25, 2024
at 6:00 am
Look at the wind blowing those palms! The orange trees in the foreground are now long gone, as a drive up and down US 27 (Claude Pepper Highway) by the Citrus Tower can attest. You can still visit and support[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This church at Peachtree St and Massachusetts Avenue in Lakeland has lost some stained glass as of the time I took this photo in 2013. Since then, the structure has had a slew of troubles and is now “permanently closed”.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“It’s Really Cool” declares the sign of an installation of the new-fangled air conditioner at the Golf Park Building restaurant in Miami in the 1920s or 30s. Seth Bramson, author of the book noted below, notes that the open doors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shrine of La Leche, St. Augustine. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services.
on November 3, 2024
at 6:00 am
The Shrine of La Leche, St. Augustine. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services. This postcard doesn’t have a date on it. Well, that is except for the date of September 8th, 1565, which is when it is thought our country’s first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Atlantic Coast Line train depot in Bartow in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here: https://amzn.to/4eWuopm This book is aprt of the Swampy’s Florida colelction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Seaboard Air Line train depot in Ocala in the early 1900s. In 1917 the Seaboard Air Line and the competing Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, with a depot down the road from this one, combined to create a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards : Hotel Fort Harrison, Clearwater.
on October 17, 2024
at 6:00 am
The Fort Harrison Hotel is still standing on Fort Harrison Avenue as it did when the hotel opened in 1926, at the height of the Florida Boom. It remained a hotel until 1975 when the Church of Scientology bought the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards : Maxwell Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, 1940s.
on October 2, 2024
at 6:00 am
Here’s what the Maxwell Hotel once looked like. It was once located 441 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. The back of the postcard states: “All modern rooms with private bath.” The card was not mailed and can only figure this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Florida East Coast Railway depot in New Smyrna Beach in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below: https://amzn.to/2PVo74w . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: The Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne, 1952.
on September 26, 2024
at 5:59 am
This postcard of the former Melbourne Hotel was mailed from Grant, just south of Melbourne, December 11th, 1952 from Flossie to Mrs. Naomi Jackson, 3342 Morrison Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Flossie writes that he didn’t stay at the hotel above, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Sunday Services: Beulah Missionary Baptist Church, Dunnellon
on September 8, 2024
at 1:32 am
Unfortunately, the church doesn’t have a website and there are no markings on the building telling when the building was built. Fortunately the Facebook page added since I took this photo in 2013 reveals the building was opened in 1912.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…