This unmailed postcard appears to be from the 1940s-50s. This stretch of buildings still exists on Ulmerton Road, just west of Alternate 19.
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Postcards #FloridaPostcards #Floridana #Collectables #Largo #FloridaBusiness
Trilby celebrates Sea Monkey Day by bringing one a banana!
Today is the day to have a Sea Monkey -party!
You can learn more about Sea Monkey Day here:
https://www.newsweek.com/sea-monkey-brine-shrimp-national-may-16-929599
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#SeaMonkeyDay #NationalSeaMonkeyDay #SeaMonkey #cartoon #cartooning #Celebrate #Happy #Daily #Cartoon #dailyCartoon #Celebration #Florida
Swampy, Pasco Pete, Zuber and Trilby salute our Peace Officers and the service they do for us across the country!
You can learn more about Peace Officers Memorial Day by clicking here:
https://nleomf.org/programs-events/national-police-week
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#Police #PoliceWeek #LawEnforcementDay #cartoon #cartooning #Celebrate #Happy #Daily #Cartoon #dailyCartoon #Celebration #Flordia #Lawenforcement #Celebration
Not only is this piece of furniture not avaible anymore,
The books inside aren’t around either.
Or the people who might read them.
My, how our living areas have changed.
This advertisement is from the May 14th, 1970, Daytona Beach Morning News.
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#Florida #Books #Furniture #FloridaLife #FloridAliving #FloridaLifestyle #ads #Advertisement #DaytonaBeach #History #FloridaHistory
Penney is dancing!!!
You can learn more about the Chicken Dance here:
https://www.checkiday.com/a0027789c2662a50702b1e0ecc8ced8d/dance-like-a-chicken-day
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#Florida #ChickenDance #ChickenDanceDay #cartoon #cartooning #Celebrate #Happy #Daily #Cartoon #dailyCartoon #Celebration
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Saturday: Gone Fishin’!
This postcard sure shows why decades of people came to Florida.
Also why egrets have never stopped being in Florida!
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Florida #Fishing #Postcards #FloridaPostcards #Collectables #Fish #Sports #FloridaSports #Floridafun #FloridaLiving #FloridaLifestyle
This froggy is bouncing and irritating this turtle to celebrate the writing of Mark Twain’s ‘“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”.
You can learn more about Frog Jumping Day here:
https://www.gocalaveras.com/celebrated-jumping-frog/
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#FrogJumpingDay #NationalFrogJumpingDay #Frogs #Reptiles #cartooning #Celebrate #Happy #Daily #Cartoon #dailyCartoon #Celebration #Florida
Swampy’s pal, Jackie Harris took this beautiful photograph of the Blue Angels crossing over the city, May 11th, 2024.
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#Florida #BlueAngels #FortLauderdale #FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #FloridaLiving #AirFlight #Airplanes #Aviation #AirShow
Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services: Union Congregational Church, Tavares.
This is the Union Congregational Church in Tavares. It was built in 1888 after the congregation was organized in 1885. The land for the church was donated by the founder of Tavares, Major Alexander Abrams. Click here for the website for the church to learn more or to plan a visit.:
https://www.facebook.com/UnionCongregationalChurchTavaresFl/
Below are more photos of the building. I took these photos in 2013. Visits going by since has shown little change in the location.
An addition was added in 1988 and this is it:
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#Florida #Church #FloridaChurch #FloridaLiving #FloridaLifestyle #FloridaStyle
Swampy and Trilby work on a Florida limerick, but can’t figure a words to rhyme with Okahumpka.
Limerick Day celebrates the birth of English artist, illustrator, author and poet Edward Lear (May 12, 1812 – Jan. 29, 1888). ‘The Book of Nonsense’, published 1846, is a favorite of his collection of limericks and the most accessible still today. Most known of his lot is ‘The Owl and the Pussy Cat’.
A sample that connects to Florida history, while having nothing to do with it, is this of the Menorcans, or Majorcans, who lived off the coast of Spain. in the 1760s a bundle of the group traveled and established a colony in what we know as New Smyrna Beach. Descendants still live throughout Florida today.
Here’s a Lear ditty:
There was a Young Girl of Majorca,
Whose aunt was a very fast walker;
She walked seventy miles,
And leaped fifteen stiles,
Which astounded that Girl of Majorca.
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#NationalLimerickDay #Limerick #cartoon #cartooning #Celebrate #Happy #Daily #Cartoon #dailyCartoon #Celebration #Florida #EdwardLear #Minorca #Minorcan #History #Floridahistory #Majorcans #NewSmyrnaBeach
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This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Florida #Books #Cookbooks #Recipes #Fish #Dinner #food