This is an ad in the November 19th, 1950 copy of the Miami News for Swanson’s turkey available at Table Supply and Lovett’s grocery stores.
Table Supply and Lovett’s were owned by the Davis family that would eventual merge there variety of stores they owned into Winn/Dixie.
Very sad to learn today of the death of a powerhouse of Central Florida, Harris Rosen.
Here’s still another time I’m regretting my Social Media loss.
There’s bunches missing in stories of his death. Hard to cover the enormous amount Harris did.
– Rosen’s first hotel was the International Inn (Now Rosen Inn International) on International Drive. It was there around 1975 that, Sentinel Star (Now Orlando Sentinel) political cartoonist, Jim Ivey had started a full fledged version of his OrlandoCon, one of the earliest comic book conventions in the country. I and my family attended most of those into the 1980s.
Rosen helped Ivey get the Con started in honor of his father, Jack. Jack worked the Waldorf-Astoria and was an amteur cartoonist who would draw the many ceolebrities passing through the Waldorf in the ’30 and on. Those caricatures adorn ‘Jack’s Place’ in the Rosen Plaza on international Drive. It’s not well known that Harris, himself, loved the cartoon world and dreamed of being a cartoonist/artist.
Eventually, Jim Ivey got older and through selling and transforming of the OrlandoCon, it became, what is known today, as MegaCon. This is thanks to the hard work of Jim Ivey and Harris Rosen.
– Rosen also had concerns for the obvious destruction of natural Florida. His Rosen Shingle Creek is the only facility that worked with Shingle Creek in it’s backyard. For those of us that have poured decades in Florida water well know the critical importance of Shingle Creek. Those waters shimmy down to Lake Okeechobee. Unlike the Disney Military Industrial Complex, as i call it, Rosen worked with the life blood of our water instead of pouring poisons in it.
I’m fortunate to have spent some time with Rosen and that he loved my annual Christmas prints. That is nothing to so much he has done for our state and the model he has created that we can only hope & pray others will follow.
Here’s one of many Media stories:
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2024/11/25/harris-rosen-orlando-hotelier-and-philanthropist-dies-at-85/
Trilby chooses a chunk of 3-layer chocolate cake over other other Thanksgiving goodies.
I believe Trilby is off to another tummy ache!
Ah, the plight of baby alligators!
Southern Living posts today a cake to bake each month of 2023:
https://www.southernliving.com/food/desserts/cakes/cake-ideas-every-month
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#Florida #Cakes #Happy #Celebrate #Celebration #DailyCartoon #Daily #Cartoon #Deserts
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 the Citrus Tower by clicking here:
https://citrustower.com/
This postcard of the Citrus Tower isn’t dated, though it appears to be from around 1970.
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Florida #Clermont #Citrus #CitrusTower #Floridapostcards #Postcards #Collectibles #FloridaCollectibles
Bunny shows her cranberry parfait!
You can learn more about National Parfait Day by clicking here:
http://www.punchbowl.com/holidays/national-parfait-day
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#Cartoon #Florida #NationalParfaitDay #Parfait #Celebrate #Celebration #Daily #Cartoon #DailyCartoon
Swampy stops in Christmas in eastern Orange County to feature Fort Christmas Baptist Church at 23600 E. Colonial Drive. Don’t know when the church was built. Pastor Ken Mann, in 2013, told me the church was built in 1946.
You can learn more of the church here:
The building below is far newer and is their fellowship hall.
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#Florida #Sunday #Services #Church #churches #History #Faith #ChristmasFlorida
Here’s a recipe from ‘Louise’s Florida Cook Book’ by Louise Lamme. Her husband, Bob, illustrates the book from 1968.
This is scanned directly from the book.
You an purchase your own copy of this book by clicking here:
https://amzn.to/3ZdLoT8
This book of recipes is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Florida #Recipes #FloridaRecipes #Bread #meal #FloridaLife #FlordiaLiving #FloridaLifestyle
Got in 3 miles hiking Friday. Hadn’t done that in far too long.
After getting the alternator replaced in the car, was advised to drive it every day for a week. Just not very far. The mechanic folks are worried of a hot wire they can’t figure out.
Sooo..this is getting me out everyday, when i, otherwise, would be sitting and working all day. Getting to the storage room and think I’ll tromp some local trails…which I desperately need to do for my health.
See 3-D video here:
https://lnkd.in/eWTnZWfv
Here is an image of Jacksonville, Tampa, Key West Railway sometime in the 1800s. The railroad was incorporated in 1878 as the Tampa, Peace Creek and St. Johns Railway with the intent of providing rail service to areas on the west coast of the state. In 1881 the route of the rails were altered and the name changed to the Jacksonville, Tampa, Key West Railway. This left later building the rails to Tampa by the South Florida Railroad.
This image is from ‘Florida! It’s Climate, Productions and Characteristics’.
Click here to get your copy:
https://amzn.to/3ZkojgY
This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Florida #trains #Railroad #Transportation #Travel #FloridaTravel #Jacksonville #JacksonvilleFlorida
The turkey tells of fear of being dinner this coming week, so he was running around scaring everyone off. Swampy assures the frightened bird that he will be spared today in celebration of Humane Society Anniversary Day!