Cows get refreshed in the fountain that once sat at the intersection of Main Street and Palm Avenue. The fountain was added by Sarasota’s founder, John Hamilton Gillespie. In the early 1900s cows could often be found wandering around Downtown[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Stanley Segal in his auto garage of his Segal Safety Cabs getting in shape in Miami Beach. This photo is from ‘Miami Beach Memories: A Nostalgic Chronicle of Days Gone By’ by Joann Biondi. You can get your own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a cigar factory in Ybor City known for making a well-known cigar at the time, the Julia Marlowe. The two cars are Westcott cars. This photo is from ‘Yesterday in Florida Annual Edition: Volume 2, Issues 9-14’. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is form a 1960 Florida Department of Agriculture brochure, ‘This is Florida Land of Sunshine’, promoting tourism in the state. The Commissioner of Agriculture at the time was Lee Thompson, who states in the brochure that Florida produces[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unfortunately, the photo in the book this is from gives no other information than that this is a group of oyster shuckers in Apalachicola. It is indicated the photo is from the Florida State Archives. This photo is from ‘African[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from Yesterday in Florida Annual Edition: Volume 1, Issues 1-8. You can purchase this book by clicking here or below.
This is Downtown Auburndale in 1913. The year before a fire had brought the area to the ground. Before the 1912 fire, the Downtown was built of wood. The town builders turned to brick and that is what you see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seventeen year old Susan Deen was crowned in Hastings the 1962 Potato Queen by, then, Agricultural Commissioner Doyle Conner. The Deen family is a vast one in Florida spreading far beyond the potato fields in Hastings in western St. Johns[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s teh Seminole Hotel in Winter Park in the late 1800s. It burned to the ground in 1902. This photo is from Chronological History of Winter Park’ by Claire MacDowell. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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.
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…