href=”http://swampysflorida.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/20130401-182603.jpg”> Here’s an icon to find a historic museum. This Studebaker sign, that once graced an Ocala car dealership, now welcomes visitors to the Marion County Historical Museum in Ocala in the McPherson Government Complex.
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Swampy’s Friend’s Photos: Today on the Wakulla River
Swampy’s friend Susan Green is at the Wakulla Springs Lodge and took this photo of the tour boat taking off into the river for one of it’s fantastic trips earlier today. She and her husband were fortunate to take the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here comes No. 92, the Silver Star, arriving in Winter Park….. And a photo of the same No. 92 with some new passengers aboard and a few departed heading north to DeLand, Palatka, Jacksonville and then on north. Also below[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy Live: Gator rides at Gatorama!
Allen Register, of Gatorama in Palmdale. gives Swampy a gator ride. The visit was to establish a new character that will be in the Swampy realm. More to come as that develops.
Swampy visits with Butch Wilson, who runs the fantastic Clewiston Historical Museum. The museum displays the vast history of the area from prehistoric to the sugar industry to present. Butch showed a series of recent amazing improvements to the museum.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
href=”http://swampysflorida.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130325-194435.jpg”> Here’s Swampy with Sinclair who works in the only other Royal Castle in Miami. He explained the difference between his burgers and Arnold’s Royal Castle. Below is a photo of the two sets of the burgers side by side.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Swampy with Patrick at Los Olas Florida Antiques with lots of Florida goodies!
Here’sSwampy with the fellow leading the four Doolittle Raiders and responsible for so much to make this Farewell Reunion happen. The Raiders themselves are signing books at the moment for a few hundred people in line.
After 35 years of serving folks from around Lake Okeechobee, Lightsey’s Seafood Restaurant shows how to combine taxidermy. Below is the entrance and that they build meals from fresh fish.
The First United Methodist Church of Okeechobee was built in 1924 as the Methodist Episcopal Church South. There’s a back wing for Sunday school that appears to have been built around 1960. Speaking to many in the church, little is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
href=”http://swampysflorida.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20130323-201539.jpg”> Here’s Orange Bowl Lanes in Kissimmee. This ten lane spot has been seeing strikes since 1961. Though it’s on the busy Irlo Bronson Highway teeming with tourist spots, this place stays packed. Right now there must be 150+ people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the abandoned Miller’s Lakeside Motel in Intercession City in Osceola County. There are so many of these across our state. More in communities that have struggled as Intercession City has over the decades. This far western community of Osceola[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…