Today is #WorldRangerDay! Florida is full of incredible rangers that run our parks system. One of Swampy’s favorites is the park biologist for the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Mike Owen. Mike is a wonder in South Florida. Mike not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for July, 2014
Happy #PAperbackBookDay! Here is just a tiny collection of the Swampy’s Florida paperback collection of Florida fiction! Please visit your local book store and pick up a paperback book of Florida today! Some of Swampy’s favorites are: Copperfish Books, Punta[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is Rain Day and Trilby skips through a typical Florida refreshing and invigorating rain. A favorite thing to do is to take a bit of a hike through a park and then the rain falls to cool off. Visit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another part of the Swampy’s Florida Floridana collection. This is an advertising card for the long gone and well missed Six Gun Territory in Ocala.
Florida, Land Of Images by Nixon Smiley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nixon Smiley has collected a series of informative essays of various historical markers in Florida history. Each is very well written and most provide a very good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s ‘Take Your Houseplant For A Walk Day’ and Trilby, the baby alligator, takes his Virginia Creeper down the road. To find the houseplant best for your home, check with the Florida Native Plant Society.
Thought I’d add another to the “National” whatever days with this for National Dance Day. This “Day” was started recently by a television program to promote their program. So here is Trilby, the baby alligator, and Zuber, the cat, tapping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Pioneers in Paradise’, page 77.
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…
This advertisement is from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 15th, 1958. The ad is for the Palmer First National Bank and Trust Company of Sarasota. The Palmer Bank was founded by the early Palmer pioneer family. Since 1924 the bank stood[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
July 8th, 1970 was the grand opening of the SuperX on Nova Road in Daytona Beach. Here’s the advertisement that day in the Daytona Beach Morning Journal.
A lot of national and international businesses got their start in Florida. Chico’s is one of those. Back in 1983 the first store, above, opened on Sanibel Island selling gifts and island clothing. That original store is still open amongst[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…