Swimmers having Summer fun at Spa Beach in St. Petersburg in 1923. This photo is from ‘St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, 1888-1950’ by Raymond Arsenault. You can click here to get a copy for yourself.
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In the early 1930s the bathing suits these ladies are wearing were considered decadent. Here we see conscientious objectors to the law. This photo is from ‘Miami Memoirs” by John Sewell with update by Arva Moore Parks. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a 1930 view of Miami looking south on Biscayne Boulevard from 8th Street. This image if from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’ by Richard Bowe. You can get a copy of this book by clicking here or below.
Anyone trying to get their first driver’s license in the late ’70s or early ’80s had a copy of this book. Did you have one like it?
This the Jadrievic store in Pensacola, 1890s. It obviously had men’s clothing. The store also catered to the male taste with an appropriate saloon, too. This photo is from ‘Pensacola – The Deep Water City’ byLucious & Linda Ellsworth.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was August 26th, 1992 when folks in South Florida came out of a long night to see the destruction Hurricane Andrew had caused. Here are just a few photos. Below is a neighborhood after Andrew. It was an upside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a hurricane fashion pose after a hurricane in Fort Lauderdale in 1947. Photo is from ‘Florida’s Hurricane History’ by Jay Barnes. You can purchase a copy of the book yourself by clicking here or below.
Beware of the cows! This is in St. Petersburg in 1922 at the corner of 9th Street and 21st Avenue North. Will you see wild animals these days in St. Petersburg? It was about six months ago that I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are two views of Ridegwood Avenue in Daytona Beach. The top one is from 1950. The bottom one is from one year later in 1951. These photos being an example of the drive to build roads in Florida in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Perlman brothers and their father at the original Lum’s in 1956. They took a small bar that served hot dogs in the early ’50s in Miami Beach and turned it into a chain of hundreds of restaurants throughout Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the bakery area that was once in Ronnie’s Restaurant in the Colonial Plaza in Orlando. The bakery was in a room that also, to the left of your view here, had a small delicatessen. The room was adjoining Ronnie’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The place to go on a hot Summer day – The mall! Here’s Colonial Plaza Mall in Orlando in the mid 1960s. The Publix moved from it’s much smaller location on Mills Avenue to Colonial Plaza. The building it left[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…