This was what one side of the Dubsdread pool looked like many decades ago when there was a pool at all at the Dubsdread Country Club just north of the College Park neighborhood in the most northern part of Orlando[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Postcards
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…
It’s Blue Springs near Orange City. The postcard is postmarked from 105 years ago, February 19th, 1908. Then as now you can find the endangered manatee roaming the waters at certain times of the year. The park is now Blue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Lake Eola, a gift to Orlando by, one of my heroes, Jacob Summerlin, King of the Crackers. I recall once years ago trying to place a year and location for this postcard, but can’t recall now what I figured.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Hair Design Studio in Coral Gables! This where a “M. Josef”, as stated on the back of the postcard, is the “Master of the Art of Beauty” and will “Unmask the beauty that is yours”. The card is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Gator Lagoon at Homosassa Springs!
This unmarked postcard looks to be from around 1970. The location is the fantastic Homosassa Springs, a location to visit if you haven’t. Click here to learn more.
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards – Lake Placid Tower, 1961
Lake Placid sure has changed a lot as has the area around the Lake Placid Tower. This postcard is from around it’s beginnings in 1961. Unfortunately there is no date or postmark on the back of the postcard. Currently the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Caspar’s Alligator Jungle!
Here’s a postcard of the old Caspar’s Gator Jungle. I wish this postcard had two things: 1) a postmark 2) an address. I’ve seen much about Caspar’s over the years. I know I’ve read about it, but the memory is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Flagler’s Hotel Ponce de Leon.
Here’s, what is known today, as Flagler College in St. Augustine. At the time of this undated postcard this was, as it was built, the Hotel Ponce deLeon built by Florida pioneer Henry Flagler as he built the Florida East[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida #Sunday Services: 1st Methodist Church, Fort Myers
Here’s the First Methodist Church of Fort Myers depicted in this unmarked postcard. The church is still very active in Fort Myers. You can plan to visit a service by clicking here: http://fumcftmyers.org/
Greetings from Florida! This postcard shows a mosaic of pictures of 1968 from Cape Canaveral to Cypress Gardens. It was mailed April 12th, 1968 by Susan Seffers to Joanne Ferrara in Brightwater, new York. Susan writes the temperature is 88[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards – Along the Caloosahatchee
Postmarked 1913 this postcard from somewhere near Lee County ended up in Brawley, California. The note on back is a sister not happy that she’s going to have to stay where they are in Florida for “a few more years’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…