Here’s a matchbook for Orlando radio station, WDBO (Way Down By Orlando). The station moved from the address shown above in the late 80s to a huge facility on John Young Parkway. WDBO is now an AM station playing sports[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Advertising
Here’s a tray depicted early and more recent images of Badcock Furniture Stores. Badcock is a Florida native, born in Mulberry, in south Polk County. Stores are spread all over the state and beyond. This year, 2024, Badcock is celebrating[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Captain’s Table, Daytona Beach.
This unmarked card appears to be from the late ’70s, when the Captain’s Table was a popular spot. The spot is gone again, though there are many places across Florida using the same name. This postcard is part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in 1915 Palatka was more of a destination of businesses and travel. The access to the St Johns River and trains helped the focus. This advertisement is from the April 8th, 1915 issue of the Palatka News and Advertiser.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is from the April 1st, 1976, edition of the Bradford County Telegraph. Free balloons gets me every time! . . . . . . #Florida #Starke #Appliances #Advertising
Swampy’s Florida Ads from Today, 1965: New England Oyster House, Miami News.
Who remembers the New England Oyster House in Dade County? I remember the nets hanging as decoration around the New England Oyster House near Downtown Miami and how i had to watch where I was walking not to get caught[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Webb City, in St. Petersburg, where one could buy children’s clothes, get a heaircut, a hamburger and watch chickens dance. Yep! There was a chocken dancing area among a whole bunch all inside a block size building in Downtown St.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads: The Citrus Tower, Clermont
It the Citrus Tower in Clermont! Now the view is of a sea of roofs but the tower is still there, plus the gift shop and the Hall of Presidents. It’s been more recently further updated with much more to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Add $20 for the little trees these days. Just a few decades ago, folks used to grow their own citrus. It’s a lot of work, but the rewards of fresh fruit and juice made the efforts more than worth the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally! The Truth is revealed at Kennedy’s in Ocala….though, the true prices are hard to find today! Kennedy’s was a long time store in Downtown Ocala and, later, as Kennedy’s Oxford Shop in Ocala Shopping Center a mile from Downtown.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s what the Tramor Cafeteria was advertising February 13th, 1939 in the St. Petersburg Times. The prices are surreal to what we know today. Yet the food was likely better and better for you. Today telling your Valentine that you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As Social Media takes over the retail store market, these ‘After-Christmas’ sales are vanishing. Maas Brothers sure has. This Tampa-native store was victim of consolidation as Burdines, of Miami, swallowed it and then New York’s Macy’s swallowed Burdines. This advertisement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…