Krispy Kreme doughnut shops used to dot the Florida landscape. In the early ’80s many closed. In the past 10 years many new Krispy Kreme stores were built again across the state. Here’s one of the new ones in Winter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Food Stops
Here’s the coffee menu for the Hotel Mayflower in Jacksonville. It’s figured the menu is from around 1940. Below are some amazing prices.
Robert is here is an amazing place to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables, preserves, coconut candy and a zillion other items you might find at a Supermarket of a fruit stand. Add in the petting zoo, old cars and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy joined fans of the television program, ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ in Cocoa Beach Saturday for the annual “Jeannie Day”. The event was held at the old Mousetrap watering hole, now a ‘Durango Steakhouse’. The seriesĀ took place in Cocoa[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits Zephyrhills and makes a stop on US 301 at ABC Pizza …. or is it? This location was an infamous, Pinellas County based, Biff Burger until the mid-70s when the whole chain fell through. Click here for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the oil disaster grows and grows and ecomasses more of the Gulf, we’ll be seeing seafood prices soar. Here’s a story for the Ocala Star-Banner about it: ———————————————————- Surging Seafood Markets, restaurants may see prices rise Cedric Kent peered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inverness – Withlacoochee State Trail
Swampy visits Inverness and the Withlacoochee State Trail located in Liberty Park at the end of North Pine Avenue, north of Hwy 41. At the park is the wonderful train caboose… Across from the caboose is the oldest standing train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy makes a stop at the one and only Big Boy restaurant currently in Florida. At one time there were a slew of Big Boys across the state under the name Frisch’s. The franchise faded in the mid-80s. The corporate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…