This is ‘The Dolphin Restaurant and Marine Village’. Parts of these buildings still stand.
Archive for Florida Amusement Spots
Here a postcard of the early days of Marineland. Shown is the now gone Dolphin pool.
This postcard is of the entrance to the world famous Silver Springs. There is no date on the card and would figure this to be from around 1960. I seem to recall this picture had a back story to it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, the great days of the beautiful Cypress Gardens! Here the Southern Belle is engulfed in a sea of Margaret Bacon Bougainvillea. Intertwined is flame vine and in the foreground is scarlet sage. This photograph is from ‘The New Cypress[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since 1946 Theater of the Sea has been one of the great show places to see dolphins perform. You can visit their site and plan a visit by clicking here: http://theaterofthesea.com/ Coming tomorrow: Don’t slip on it! #NationalDolphinDay[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Sunken Gardens, St. Petersburg.
This unmarked postcard appears to be from the late 1960s of Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg. You can still visit Sunken Gardens today. Click here to plan your trip to this Florida botanical wonder. Save
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Gator Lagoon at Homosassa Springs!
This unmarked postcard looks to be from around 1970. The location is the fantastic Homosassa Springs, a location to visit if you haven’t. Click here to learn more.
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards – Lake Placid Tower, 1961
Lake Placid sure has changed a lot as has the area around the Lake Placid Tower. This postcard is from around it’s beginnings in 1961. Unfortunately there is no date or postmark on the back of the postcard. Currently the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Caspar’s Alligator Jungle!
Here’s a postcard of the old Caspar’s Gator Jungle. I wish this postcard had two things: 1) a postmark 2) an address. I’ve seen much about Caspar’s over the years. I know I’ve read about it, but the memory is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is from a packet of ‘Charm Spots of Florida’ mailed in the late 1950s.
If you want to celebrate Batman or Batman Day, one of the best places in Florida to do that is at the Miami Auto Museum in North Miami. There is a whole area of the museum set aside just for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are a couple of railway cars that were part of the former Circus World tourist amusement park north of Haines City in Polk County (Along U.S.27 & just off Interstate 400). I was in these cars a few times[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…