This postcard, postmarked 1964, shows how some buildings in Florida don’t change in 50 years. Below is what Church By The Sea looks like today: View Larger Map Click here to learn more about or plan a visit to Church[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the First United Methodist Church in Bradenton. The postcard is postmarked 1949 and mailed to Mrs. Ella Bates in Beloit, Wisconsin. The church is still there today. Click here to learn more about or to plan a visit. Below[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winter Haven before a fire in 1985 burn the entire place down. The church was later rebuilt. Would love to know why the buildings were rebuilt apart. Click here to learn more about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a matchbook for the Thunderbird Motel that still exists today but, as is usually the case, exchanging “Motel” for “Resort”. Click here to go to the Thunderbird of today now being handled by Days Inn. Below is an image[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Historic Derby Street Chapel is just south of the Historic Cocoa Village in Brevard County. The structure was built between 1919 and 1924 for the Seven Day Adventist Church. The building changed hands amongst a number of faiths over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This undated postcard does describe the location on the back – ‘Cleveland Street business section looking west, Clearwater, Florida’. By the cars, I’d say this is from around 1960. Obviously, by the lights and star, around Christmas time. Please post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cool Signs: ‘The Banyan Tree Motel’ on 4th Street in St. Petersburg.
At one time Sulphur Springs, now engulfed by the City of Tampa, was an individual community in the early years of the 20th century. Now the community is mostly residential. Though, there are still remnants of, what was a bustling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“It’s Really Cool” declares the sign of an installation of the new-fangled airconditioner 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 might[…]↓ 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…
Here’s Main Street in Sarasota heading out to the water in 1888. From ‘The Story of Sarasota’ recently added to the Swampy library after
It’s the Orlando Arena after the implosion taken from a terrific vantage point of the nearby Zora Neale Huston Building by Swampy’s friend Linsey Klein. She’s also a photographer, but this was a casual shot she nabbed with her iPhone.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…