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 also just an AM station now.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are parts of the brochure. It actually is multi-fold and opens up very large with all sorts of photos and fishing information.
Jimmy Fazio moved to Broward County in ’52 and continued a string of food and entertainment establishments he had started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His House of Ribs was one of the best known. Fazio died in ’98 and here is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As another shuttle is up on another last mission. Here’s a brochure from the early ’70s for, what is now called, The Kennedy Space Center. This is just a two-sided card. Below is the flip side.
Today begins Thursday posts about match books from Florida. The first one being quasi-Florida. The Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours were only in a select location around the state, like Tampa, Altamonte Springs, etc. They came in the mid-70s and were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just in time for Spring – The newest dress styles! I believe Sally Dress Shop was in Mount Dora for a very long time. The building, in the heart of Mt. Dora, is still there and is home of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Circus World closed in the mid-80s and became Boardwalk and Baseball. Recently the site at the corner of I-4 and US 27 in Polk County has been partially transformed into an outdoor mall named Posner Park. From Orlando Magazine in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an ad with a cute rhyme for Hollieanna Sales Room on 17-92 in Maitland. Guess what? They are STILL there! Now awash in other commercial development, Hollieanna Groves is the last of what used to be dozens of citrus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Interesting that the mailing address was at the Jefferson Court Hotel in Orlando. Ilk Chase was a celebrity best known for her talk and game show appearances. This ad is from ‘Orlando Attraction’ from February 1952.
Here’s an ad from a St. Petersburg Apartment guide that is undated but appears to be from the 1940s. One interesting bit here is that there is no actual physical street address given for the building. For many people in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a terrific and exciting ad. I want to go there now. If you haven’t been, the lions, rhinoceros, giraffe and many many animals that can only otherwise be experienced in a zoo or in the wild can be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an ad from 1964 in the 34th edition of Florida Architecture. I checked the address for this project: 2800 E. Oakland Park Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale using the internet and it brought me to here.