Take me out to the ball game in Sarasota to the Spring Training site of the baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. There’s no date on the back of the card, but I would say this is from the 1940s.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Postcards
A sight to see! Tourists would go to watch the penned sea turtles, called “turtle crawls” or “kraals”, as they swim and bob about. This postcard doesn’t have a date, but I would say the 1940s. The sea turtles were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an interesting undated postcard. This is what The Florida Orchestra needs: Singing Alligators. It sure would fill some seats!
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…
Here’s an postmarked postcard that is labeled on the back: ‘View from wharf with skyline of Tampa, Florida in the background’. There is a photo credit: Paul Hogan.
This Weeki Wachee postcard postmarked 1966 is of Weeki Wachee without the mermaids! The famous underwater theater is the white structure in the background to the left. The beach area where the ladies are sitting is now Buccaneer Bay.
Here’s a postcard from around 1950 of the Monument of States in Kissimmee. This 50′ high statue was assembled in 1943 of contributions of various geological items from all 48 states at the time. Since then all 50 added to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is dated from 1955. The message on the back to someone in Largo, Florida, is about the misadventures of a couple and their car that keeps breaking down in Perry, Tallahassee, etc.
Here’s a card from about a hundred years ago featuring Southern Pinellas County.
Here’s a postcard, labeled ‘The Bathing Beach’, that was mailed in 1958. The message in the back is very hard to read. Something about a trip for a part of the family and that there are “just 3 of us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where, oh where might this be in our great state of Florida?
Where might this be in our great state of Florida? It was near the coast. But which one?