Look at the wind blowing those palms! The orange trees in the foreground are now long gone, as a drive up and down US 27 (Claude Pepper Highway) by the Citrus Tower can attest. You can still visit and support[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the past week I’ve referred online, in Messenger and otherwise to the cartooning on this Jacksonville Zoo brochure, circa 1960. The artwork is not signed and it’s likely the artwork is gone to history. So very much of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an advertising card for ‘Flipper’s Sea School’ that existed from 1972 to 1977. Prior to that the location was known as ‘Santini’s Porpoise School’ and housed one of the porpoises from the TV series ‘Flipper’. After 1977, the location[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an advertising card for Lion Country Safari from the 1970s. Lion Country Safari is still with us. You can plan a visit by clicking here: https://www.lioncountrysafari.com This is, as is 99.9% of what is seen on this site, part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Ross Allen at Silver Springs park (now known as Silver Springs Sate Park). As stated on the back of the card, this is Allen performing a duty he did a good deal of his life, milking a rattlesnake for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection………..#Florida #FortLauderdale #FloridaFun #FloridaLife #FloridaLiving #FloridaLifestyle #FloridaLife #Postcards #FloridaPostcards #Alligators #Gators
A postcard with the image of a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540-K with “huge eight cylinder supercharged engine”. According to the back of the postcard, the King of Afghanistan bought this in 1937 for $40,000. It was at one time part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of my favorite postcards. Love the action of the water skier coming off a ramp during a water ski show in Cypress Gardens. The water ski shows in Cypress Gardens were internatinally known throughout their run. Part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
McKee Jungle Gardens opened in 1932 after Arthur G. McKee & Waldo E. Sexton bought 80 acres of land decided to make part of it a part of it featuring the botanical wonders of Florida and beyond. They made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A postcard of the former Floridaland and it’s “Amazing porpoise shows” in the “Porpoise Pool”, as stated on the back of the postcard.Floridaland was in Osprey, near Venice. This postcard isn’t postmarked, but would figure this is from the late[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Esther Williams swimming pool that once was part of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven. The postcard scene if from the Esther Williams film ‘Easy to Love’, also starring Van Johnson and Tony Martin. The postcard was mailed June[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cape Coral Gardens opened in 1964 and closed in 1970 and featured performances like this. Also included was a dancing waters show and, of course, the gardens. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection………….#Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Floridana #CapeCoral #Porpoise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…