Here’s the Atlantic Coast Line train depot in Bartow in the early 1900s.
This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley.
You can purchase a copy by clicking here:
https://amzn.to/4eWuopm
This book is aprt of the Swampy’s Florida colelction.
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#Florid #Railroad #Trains #Transportation #Travel #FloridaTravel #History #FloridaHistory
Happy International Artist Day!
Swampy’s Florida focus is just the Florida part of the international scene.
So, let’s celebrate with a bit of Florida artwork i did for the silent auction event for Pine Castle Pioneer Days which I’ve been involved with most of 35 years.
I titled it ‘Mose Paine Playin’ for the Natives!’
This is of Mose Paine who played music around Pine Castle, in south Orange County up into Orlando, in the late 1800s. We was the Taylor Swift of Central Florida back then.
11″ x 14″ watercolour painting on Crescent board.
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#Florida #Painting #watercolour #watercolor #History #Floridahistory #Illustration #Animals
Here is the Spring Side Motel in Ocala on Silver Springs Boulevard in the 1950s. The postcard declares a Free T.V. in every room, 28 units and 100% air conditioned.
Here’s what the motel looked like in 2007:
The motel is still standing. However it no longer has the cheery look and the name has changed to, the dreadful, ‘Economy Extended Stay Motel’. Ugh!
Here it is now:
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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#Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Collectables #Floridalife #FloridaLifestyle #Travel #FloridaTravel #Hotel #Motel #FloridaHotel #FloridaMotel
The structure still stands today, but a depressing blah look versus what it looked like above. In the comments area is a photo of the sad look the spot has today.
Zuber sends the baloney discs aflyin’ to Trilby for a tasty treat!
For fine German baloney a great place to go is Mr. Dunderbak’s in Daytona Beach. Mr. Dunderbak’s could be found in malls all over Florida years ago. This is the last of those still open. The eating spots were odd in that you would roam the roomy mall of clothes boutiques and record stores and stop at Mr. Dunderbak’s very crowded room of tables, chairs, deli counter, bar, food and booze. Being at a Mr. Dunderbak’s was like being somewhere other than a mall. It was as if you had managed to be transported to a biergarten somewhere in Germany.
Mr. Dunderbak’s opened in the same location back in 1975 and is considered to be the best restaurant for German food in Daytona Beach. To learn more and to plan a trip to nab some German baloney and German potato pancakes at Mr. Dunderbak’s click here:
http://dunderbaksdaytona.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.html
There is only one other Mr. Dunderbak’s in Florida and it’s far more of a roomy American layout over in Tampa on Bruce B. Downs.
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#Lunch #NationalBaloneyDay #Baloney #Celebration #Daily #DailyCelebration #DailyCartoon #Cartoon #Florida #Webtoon #WEbcomic #Comic