Getting an Easter feast? These hunters have caught a few turkeys after a day’s hunt in the Melbourne area around 1900. This photo is from ‘Our Florida Heritage’, a collection of reprints from Florida Living magazine.
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Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Daytona Beach Kennel Club, 1960.
on February 12, 2013
at 1:56 pm
It’s still with us! Click here to plan a visit to the Daytona Beach Kennel Club. This is a part of the Swampy’s Florida collection!
This photo is from ‘Port Tampa City – A History of Change’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: The Caribbean, Miami Beach.
on February 5, 2013
at 1:48 pm
Notice the cut trees loaded on the flats. This is a train owned by the Crummer Cypress Company bringing the dead wood into Lacoochee, in Pasco County, to be sliced and diced for shipment. It seems this is a load[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The rail yard in Dunnellon in 1906 was a hopping place as phosphate was a booming business at the time. Phosphate and rock was moved out of the bustling industrial community to nearby Rockwell and Inglis to prepare for use[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Glass Bottom Boat Mermaid
on January 1, 2013
at 2:56 am
Amazing what $1.50 could get you at one time! This is from ‘Selling the Sunshine State’ by Tim Hollis. You can purchase one by clicking here or below.
It’s 1950 in Boca Grande and the Seaboard Coastline train arrives. This photo is from ‘Boca Grande – Lives of an Island’ by the Boca Grande Historical Society. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
At Florida State University, then the Florida State College for Women, a group of students kick up in front of the Westcott Building in 1915. This photo is from ‘Yesterday in Florida – Volume 3’. You can purchase a copy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The author of ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’, Sloan Wilson, lived in Florida on and off from when he was five years old. A number of his books takes place in our state including this one from 1967,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the largest load of lumber pulled from the pine forests of Lee County, near Slater, by the Dowling & Camp Lumber Company in the early 1930s. From ‘Lee County – A Pictorial History’. You can purchase a copy by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…