Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Cruising Tampa Bay.
on September 26, 2012
at 1:39 am
Here’s a matchbook for the ‘M/V Pinella’ that would give people the opportunity to cruise and fish the bay and nearby waters.
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Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Carnival Bar, Miami
on September 19, 2012
at 12:41 am
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…
Do you have a Friendly Floridian card?
on August 14, 2012
at 3:00 pm
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…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Silver Springs Banner
on August 14, 2012
at 12:06 pm
Here’s a Silver Springs banner that would hang on the walls of tourists home from a visit to Silver Springs,
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Old Scandia, Opa-Locka, 1950s.
on August 7, 2012
at 1:10 am
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…
S & H Green Stamps
on August 1, 2012
at 1:41 am
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…
The Orlando Chamber of Commerce tacked ‘Orlando – The Action Center’ to advertising in the mid-’70s. Here’s an early brochure from that time. The top 2 of the collage of photos is of Lake Eola. The next is of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: City Yacht Basin, Miami, 1950s.
on July 17, 2012
at 2:06 pm
It’s Summer and here’s the special at the City Yacht Basin! $3.35! What a deal! (Of course, it appears this two-sided brochure is about60 years old.)
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: 95ynf Tag, Tampa, 1986.
on July 10, 2012
at 1:48 am
Above is the back cover of ‘Music’ magazine, Tampa Bay edition, published in May 1986. It’d be tough to pull off a radio promo like that these days. Below is the front cover with jazz artist chick Corea. In today’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads – The First National Bank of Tampa Coloring Book
on June 19, 2012
at 12:24 pm
Here’s the cover of a coloring book celebrating The First National Bank of Tampa, ‘The Tallest Building in Florida”. Below is the back cover. Below that are a couple inside pages. There is no date on the publication, but I’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch, Silver Springs.
on June 12, 2012
at 1:06 pm
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…