The turkey and Alva start the music and Trilby and Zuber get to square dancing!
You can learn more about Happy Square Dancing Day by clicking here:
http://www.history.com/news/square-dancing-a-swinging-history
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My 2024 Swampy’s Florida Black Friday paintings Sale!
You can also get a Free painting! See below.
Just like the other paintings you’ve seen I’ve done, I will create an original watercolor painting based with cute critters – Florida critters are best. Critters you choose
I’ll take that and put them in a humorous scene.
This year I’m including caricature. You provide the photos & information of their lives and I’ll take it from there.
All will be done in watercolor.
I may have missed something that can be discussed.
You could get one as a gift for someone or for yourself or something else.
$7 for for a 5″ X 7″ watercolor painting on watercolor board
$30 for a 9″ X 12″ watercolor painting on watercolor board.
$60 for a 11″ x 14″ watercolor painting on watercolor board.
$100 for a 16″ x 20″ watercolor painting on watercolor board.
I will do my very best to hand deliver any paintings. Otherwise, postage is extra.
This offer is good from now until midnight December 4th.
You can leave the request in the comments section below or in a private message or e-mail: projects@robsmithjr.com. Feel free to call me to request, also: (407) 880-1128.
Thanksgiving Treat: For a Free 5″ x 7″ painting, be the first to respond to this below in the comment area.
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Milton, the sea turtle, wants all to know a trip to the Sea Turtle Conservancy website can help you adopt a turtle! A fine idea for a Christmas gift!
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.
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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/