Archive for Florida Postcards
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard: Downtown Largo.
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida colelction. #Postcards #FloridaPostcards #Floridana #Collectables #Largo #FloridaBusiness
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard Saturday: Gone Fishin’!
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard: Along Kentucky Avenue, Lakeland, 1915.
Here’s Downtown Lakeland along Kentucky Avenue. The view is looking north from Main Street. Munn Park is to the left outside of this image.
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard: Orange County Courthouse, Orlando, early 1900s.
Here’s the grandest of the various Orange County Courthouses that have stood in Orlando. The postcard was not mailed and was printed in Great Britain. #Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Floridana #Collectables #FloridaLife #Law #FloridaLaw #FloridaLifestyle #FloridaLife
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard Saturday: Porpoise Fun at Floridaland!
A postcard of the former Floridaland and it’s “Amazing porpoise shows” in the “Porpoise Pool”, as stated on the back of the postcard.Floridaland was in Osprey, near Venice. This postcard isn’t postmarked, but would figure this is from the late[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard : Flipper
This unmailed postcard celebrates the Florida-based media hit of the 1960s, ‘Flipper’. There were movies, a television series, comics, books, toys, etc. of the program. The concept was created by Ricou Browning, who had also been the underwater ‘Gill-Man’ in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Sunday Services: First Methodist Church, Lakeland, about 1970.
This is the First Methodist Church of Lakeland as it was for a few decades. Recently massive construction is producing a whole new structure on the property. The postcard is not postmarked. Reading the history of the church on their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida #Sunday Services: Eustis Presbyterian #Church, 1924.
Here’s a postcard of the Presbyterian Church in Eustis. This postcard was mailed June 11th, 1924 to Mrs. M.L. Nicholson of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Apparently the person mailing, M.E.B., was living in Fruitland Park. Click here to learn more and plan[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard Thursday: The Florida Pool, Cypress Gardens, 1961.
Here’s the Esther Williams swimming pool that once was part of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven. The postcard scene if from the Esther Williams film ‘Easy to Love’, also starring Van Johnson and Tony Martin. The postcard was mailed June[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard #Thursday: Homosassa Springs
This is ‘The Garden of the Springs’ at Homosassa Springs. This card is not postmarked, but appears to be from the 1960s. I did a quick search for ‘The Garden of the Springs’ and it seems to be gone now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services: St. James Catholic Cathedral, Orlando, about 1950.
This is St. James Catholic Cathedral in Orlando that is still standing in the same spot and looks nearly identical now as it did in the postcard above. Click here to learn more and to plan a visit to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…