Happy pigs in a blanket day! Just don’t try to eat this one!
You can plan a trip to Lenny’s by clicking here:
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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 now an AM station playing sports programs. It’s FM version plays various political commentary and other programs.
Through the years WDBO presented folks on the air that became local celebrities, like Perry Moore and Jim Turner. Even Orlando Police officer Jim Bishop would go on the air for a CrimeTips segment and soon asked to become a regular. He also became a regular local celebrity. Likely the best known Orlando police officer since police chief Robert Chewning in the ’60s.
WDBO is the longest running station in Central Florida and started as an experiment in 1924 at Rollins College in Winter Park, a few miles north of Orlando.
Despite the long and important history of WDBO, it’s surprising that neither website for the two current incarnations of WDBO even reference that history.
Time for a good book about Florida and Swampy is well indulging!
You can indulge, too! Nab a book off the shelf at your home, your local book store or library and log in a few pages or more this evening!
What are you reading?
Here’s the website for #WorldBookNight: http://www.worldbooknight.org/
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Ben Novak opened the famed Fontainbleu Hotel in 1954. The opening is viewed as the start of the vast redevelopment of Miami Beach still on display today of the giant hotels that now line the beach. Soon to follow was the Eden Roc and many more.
This postcard is postmarked November 1955. The card had to have come out before the Eden Roc appeared as greenery can be seen just past the Fontainebleu where the Eden Roc was later built.
The postcard was mailed by “Mother” to Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Bowman in Reidsville, North Carolina. She writes she is having “a wonderful time”, it’s “a beautiful place and so warm.”
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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Swampy’s pals celebrate somewhere in the Ocala National Forest.
Tomorrow: More reasons to read Florida history!
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A crowded steamboat, the Astatula, docked in Palatka in 1893.
From ‘When Steamboats Reigned in Florida’ by, Swampy’s friend, the late Bob Bass.
You can get your copy by clicking here.
https://amzn.to/33bhal8
#Steamboat #Boat #FloridaSteamboat #FloridaBoat #Boating #FloridaBoating #FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #Travel #FloridaTravel #Transportation #FloridaTransportation #Astatula
Little Trilby and his wee pals make their way to Kindergarten!
This German invention has been a part of children’s lives since 1873 here in the US. Kinder + garnet is the children’s + garden.
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#KindergartenDay #Kindergarten #Children #FloridaChildren #School #FloridaSchool #Education #FloridaEducation
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Here’s a recipe from ‘Pride of Ocala – Ocala Royal Dames for Cancer Research. Inc.’ in Salt Springs, Marion County.
This one submitted by the “Cookbook Committee”.
This is scanned directly from the book.
The book is from 2002.
This cook book is currently not available for sale, as I can find.
This book of recipes is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Florida #Recipes #FloridaRecipes #Dinner #Meal #Food #Party #Bread #SaltSprings #VFW #VFWAuxiliary
Then he turns it all upside down.
Trilby’s future as a chef looks suspect.You can learn more about Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day here:
https://cookingcontestcentral.com/national-pineapple-upside-down-cake-day/
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It’s 1896 in Miami and the first regular train for the Florida East Coast Railroad (FEC) arrives.
This photo is from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’.
You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below:
https://amzn.to/2K2eM8R
This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library.
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Trilby’s tomato juggling ability does not impress Alva, the mouse.
The Florida Tomato Committee can keep you informed about these tasty red vegetables. Click here to learn more about Florida tomatoes: http://www.floridatomatoes.org/
Tomorrow: Stay right side up to enjoy upside down.
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