Next week is a matchbook from the hotel right next door to the Motor Lodge. Next door to the hotel was the White Turkey Restaurant owned by Champ Williams. This was also the hotel with the tall diving board that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Advertising
Swampy’s #Florida Matches: Orlando Air Force Base
The Orlando Air Base eventually became the Orlando Naval Training Center in 1968. It later was shuttered and sold to developers to become a complex named Baldwin Park. A footnote here: Swampy’s handler, Rob, was born on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The San Carlos Hotel (also know as ‘The Gray Lady of Palafox’, in that the structure sat on Palafox Street) opened in 1910 and thrived for many decades. As with many multi-story hotels of the later 1800s & early 1900s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Matches: The Turtle Club, Clearwater
The Turtle Club existed for many years in the same location as a multi-function club. Dance club, bar, pool, etc. Kind of like a Chuck E. Cheese for adults. Things went downhill as various police agencies found themselves camped out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Matchbook: Rubin’s Restaurant, #Tampa
Here’s a matchbook from Rubin’s Restaurant in Tampa. The artwork would indicate this is from the early 1930s. A check of the address reveals that the location of the restaurant is now a parking lot.
Remember placing banners on the wall! Here’s one advertising Miami Beach from the Swampy’s #Florida collection!
Time for a 1976 Tampa-St Petersburg promotional film! Grab the popcorn!
I think that $7.98 Highly Tailored Wool Dress is YOU!!! Interesting that the WOOL dress is being advertised in AUGUST! Anthony’s Ladies Apparel is still with us! Right now celebrating 125 years serving Florida! There’s one in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a great sign at the Grove Motel in Lake Wales. Unfortunately the neon that was once part of the sign is gone, but so glad the tree shaped sign still stands. Next time in Lake Wales look for this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement for the Duval Bargain House if from the July 21st, 1915 edition of the Gulf Coast Breeze newspaper from Crawfordville, that is west of Tallahassee.
Who remembers ‘Horne’s Restaurant’? $1.50 Lunch Buffet! This advertisement is from the July 7th, 1967 edition of the Ocala Star-Banner.
This ad is from the April 24th,1981 edition of the Sarasota Journal. The Sarasota Journal lasted only a year more before ending it’s run in July 1982.