Here is a wonderful way to present a fishing exhibit. It at the Winter Garden Heritage Museum. A short distance away is what was once one of the premiere bass fishing areas in the country. That area is Lake Apopka.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dick Pope, the owner of Cypress Gardens & stalwart Florida promoter, cooked up this pin & card around 1970 with the support of, then Governor, Claude Kirk, to encourage tourists to visit Florida as much as possible. Pope was under[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the New River near Fort Lauderdale a group of Seminole go hunting, 1904. They would later sell what they caught at the Stranahan Store in what is now Downtown Fort Lauderdale. From ‘Pelts, Plumes and Hides – White Traders[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From ‘The Golden Coast’ by Harnett Kane.
The Florida History text book is available now for homeschool teachers or, as I’ve been told, for anyone who’d like to read a short version of Florida’s history! Just $6 each and includes questions, projects and even my phone number[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who remembers what these were for? Many of us old enough collected many, many of these and stuck them in a stamp book. Then we went to a store and traded them for toasters and lamps. Publix had the Green[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. is giving two talks at The Knowledge Exchange in Melbourne on Saturday, July 28th, from 10am into the afternoon. Rob will also be signing (and doodling) in his coloring books there. Rob will also be introducing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Main Street in Sarasota heading out to the water in 1888. From ‘The Story of Sarasota’ recently added to the Swampy library after
It’s the Orlando Arena after the implosion taken from a terrific vantage point of the nearby Zora Neale Huston Building by Swampy’s friend Linsey Klein. She’s also a photographer, but this was a casual shot she nabbed with her iPhone.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A packing house for bundling gladiolus grown nearby in Lee County. Lee County was considered to be the gladiolus capital of the world in the 1950s and 1960s. (From ‘Lee County – A Pictorial History’.)
A paddlewheel steamer drift into St. Lucie on the Indian River. (From ‘A History of Martin County’)
So begins the first streetcar in Coral Gables in 1925 from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’.