Here’s Franklin Street in Tampa in 1926. Prominent is the Tampa Theatre, which still thrives today! This photo is from The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 23, page 211. You can purchase a copy for yourself by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s what’s playing at the Outdoor Theatre in Clearwater during this past weekend in 1957. This is a small hand card that had been passed out to movie goers at the theater. Note the amount of western films! My how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Ross Allen at Silver Springs near Ocala. Here’s what is written on the back of the card: This postcard appears to have been hand colored. There is no postmark on the back. =”570″ height=”364″ />
Me, Swampy together tonight at the opening dinner for the Florida SpringsFest with Ricou Browning & Jordan Klein, Sr. Ricou Browning is best known as the underwater Gill-Man from the Creature from the Black Lagoon. But he contributed so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today would have been actress Dorothy Lamour’s 102nd birthday. She is best known for her films with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Better known as the “Road” pictures. Another film she is known for is ‘The Greatest Show on Earth”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Besides his great movies, Burt Reynold’s has been great bringing film to Florida. His 1997 film, ‘Big City Blues’ features Southeast Florida locations including one of the most famous businesses in Florida, ‘Wolfie’s’ in Miami Beach. The scenery of Miami[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Zuber salutes Army Day! Be sure to thank and wish a Happy Army Day to those of our Army currently in service or retired. Our Army base in our state is Camp Blanding just east of Starke in north Florida.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
During my travels through Tampa a while back, I came across this ‘Lethal Weapon III’ pinball machine. Included in the graphic is the implosion of the 1957 Orlando City Hall, much as shown at the start of the film. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Mr. Bug Goes to Town’ is a terrific cartoon about a village of insects who find themselves in the midst of human encroachment. Hoppity, the bug, is the ne’er-do-well who works to get them out of trouble. The animated film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to learn of the death of Rod Taylor. Taylor was the best of the few to portray John D. MacDonald‘s ‘Travis McGee’ in film. Taylor starred in ‘Darker than Amber’, adapted from MacDonald’s book of the same name. McGee[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida is sad to learn of the death of Lauren Bacall. She was an incredible beauty that portrayed a steel will in most all of her characters from her ‘Key Largo’ Nora Temple character to Margaret Kramer in ‘My Fellow Americans’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow! Author John D. MacDonald ‘s first in the Travis McGee series, ‘The Deep Blue Good-Bye’, is back in action as a film. Leonardo DiCaprio has been working on bringing a McGee movie to the screen for quite awhile.What do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…