This photo is from ‘More Than A Memory’ by Becky Karst. You can get your own copy of this Orlando history book by clicking here or below.
Archive for Swampy’s Florida History
Here’s the interior of the Knowles Brothers Insurance and Real Estate Office in Downtown Pensacola. This photo is from ‘Pensacola: Florida’s First Place City : A Pictorial History’ by Jesse Earle Bowden. You can purchase a copy by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are a couple of hunters in Perry after a busy day of hunting in 1930. That’s a lot of birds for two guys and three dogs. This photo is from ‘A Pictorial History of Florida’. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the overflow from the inside of the structure to the right in Waterfront Park in St Petersburg. This is the St. PEtersburg Chess-Checker-Domino Club busy at work in the 1920s. Isn’t it interesting that we don’t see groups[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1940 and members of the Mt. Pleasant AME Church in Lakeland pose for this photograph. There appears to have once been a website for the church, but it no longer is working. This photo is from ‘In the Midst[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a 1973 photo of the active campus of Florida Technological University (FTU). FTU in now University of Central Florida. This photo is from the 1973-73 course schedule of FTU.
Quiet time boat ride along Deleon Springs. This photo is from ‘Yesterday in Florida Annual Edition: Volume 2, Issues 9-14’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Here’s a fold-out brochure of Ocala from 1962. Because of the size of the fold-out, it was very difficult to show here and make much sense. Below is the inside.
Swampy Sunday Services: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winter Haven.
This is St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winter Haven before a fire in 1985 burn the entire place down. The church was later rebuilt. Would love to know why the buildings were rebuilt apart. Click here to learn more about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: McKee Jungle Gardens, Vero Beach
This brochure, as with all you see here, is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
Here’s a photo from a 1957 Florida Vacation Guide.
Here’s the First Presbyterian Church of Pompano Beach. The church looks much the same today. I have some Swampy photos of the church, but can’t locate them at the moment. I’ll post them for another Sunday Services post. Click here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…