Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Palmetto Bank & Trust, Bradenton.
Here’s a matchbook from Bradenton. The Palmetto address is now a parking lot. The Bradenton address is now a title company. Here’s the inside of the matchbook.
Here’s a matchbook from Bradenton. The Palmetto address is now a parking lot. The Bradenton address is now a title company. Here’s the inside of the matchbook.
Here’s a banking bag of Fruit Industries in Bradenton. Fruit Industries was started by Anthony Rossi and was the precursor of Tropicana, now owned by Pepsico, Inc.
Lindy’s Sundries matchbook. The address doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so I couldn’t find what is in the place of Lindy’s today.
Here’s The Gifford Arms in Orlando in the 1950s. Over time the name changed to The Howard Vernon Motor Lodge and has that name today. A map below shows how the hotels look today. View Larger Map
Here’s a two sided mailer for La Cafe De Paris in Fort Lauderdale from the 1960s. The restaurant opened 50 years ago and is now one of the oldest French restaurants in Florida. Here’s what the building looks like today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A matchbook from the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach.
Here’s a matchbook for the ‘M/V Pinella’ that would give people the opportunity to cruise and fish the bay and nearby waters.
This is the matchbook for the Carnival Bar that once existed in Downtown Miami. The Bayside Office Center now sits in a good deal of the block that the Carnival once was. The address is now being used by Capricorn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Orange County Motor Lodge was one of the premiere hotels in Orlando in the 1920s through 1950s. Inside was the Terrace restaurant and a small snack shop by the entrance. The hotel hosted many school dances and social gatherings.[…]↓ 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…
Here’s a Silver Springs banner that would hang on the walls of tourists home from a visit to Silver Springs,
The Old Scandia sat right in Downtown Opa-Locka right beside the moorish City Hall. The City Hall building still stands. Unfortunately the restaurant and the building is gone. Click here to read a review of the restaurant from 1950. Here’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…