Swampy’s Matches: Gulf Shores Motel, Port St. Joe
Don’t know when this matchbook was around, but the motel is. Click here for more information of this motel in Port St. Joe.
Don’t know when this matchbook was around, but the motel is. Click here for more information of this motel in Port St. Joe.
This brochure is from Jacksonville and offers tour service in Duval County, St. Augustine and Dade County. This does have another 6 pages explaining the tours with more photos. There is no date, but based on the cars would have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 base when[…]↓ 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…
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…
“The Playground of Florida’s West Coast”.
Here’s a matchbook for the Happy Dolphin Inn.The Inn is now renamed, as most have, The Dolphin Beach Resort. The first name was cheerful. Now it just sounds expensive. Below is the flip side advertising what appears to be a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A place to park for the Non Commissioned Officers (all ranks between Private First Class and Lieutenant) at Eglin Air Force Base in Pensacola.
This was quite a place at it’s time. Tiki Gardens is now gone and now is a parking lot for beach goers at Indian Rocks Beach.
This is unusual, a matchbook with multi-advertisements.I’d say this matchbook is from the late 1940s. The Orlando Transit Co. is now known as Lynx and has bus service over 5 counties in Central Florida. Mills and Nebraska (with the “Worlds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a favorite spot for tourists in Fort Lauderdale for many years. It eventually closed in the early 1990s. The property has been redeveloped to include a condomineum and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.
Here’s a hurricane glass from the old Kapok Tree in Clearwater. The Kapok Tree was a tourist destination that inlcuded gift shops, a fine restaurant, beautiful gardens, amazing architecture and, of course, a giant kapok tree. Watch this digital area[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…