Swampy’s Florida Friday Train Stops: Winter Haven, 1912.

by on August 9, 2024 at 6:00 am
Posted In: Swampy's Florida History

Here are the railroad tracks and railroad park in Winter Haven in 1912. The depot is just off the photo. To the upper left is the ‘Pastime Pool Room’.

This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Polk County’ by Louise Frisbie.
You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. :
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Swampy’s Florida says Happy National Book Lovers Day!

by on August 9, 2024 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Swampy's Strips

Bunny celebrates Book Lovers Day reading’The Yearling’ to a local yearling.

Please get read a Florida based book soon. Fiction or nonfiction. The more we know of our state, the more we’ll appreciate and help our state of Florida.
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Swampy’s Florida Live Artwork – Drawing the Florida Historical Events of the Day.

by on August 8, 2024 at 12:27 pm
Posted In: Swampy's Florida News

 

Wednesday during Swampy’s Florida live, I inked the above live. No plan. Made up as I drew.
The entire drawing illustrates the Florida historical happenings from August 7th.
Below is the list of the happenings I referred to.
Can you match each of the events to parts of the drawing?

– 1953 – Miami based Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet
– 1956 – Boston Red Sox fine slugger Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at heckling Boston fans, third incident in 3 weeks. Williams initially had a home in Florida and then lived out his latter life in Citrus County and died in Inverness. He had various interests in real estate in Florida.
– 1960 Arnold Palmer’s 20th PGA Tour win; rallies from a 5-stroke deficit to enter a playoff, then beats Jack Fleck and Bill Collins to win the Insurance City Open. Palmer had extensive Florida real estate and golf course holdings all over the peninsula, including a few homes.
– 1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth after launch from Cape Canaveral and stop at moon for drinks.
– 1976 US Viking 2 goes into Martian orbit after 11-month flight from Cape Canaveral (AKA Earth).�
– 1981 “The Washington Star” ceases all operations after 128 years of publication. Jim Ivey was the political cartoonist for the Star before moving back south to do same for St Petersburg Times and Orlando Sentinel. He also started the OrlandoCon that became MegaCon and The Cartoon Museum.
– 1990 US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia, beginning Operation Desert Shield. MacDaill AFB in Tampa was the strategic center for the military operations and became known world wide due to the mailitrary action.
– 1992 The Orlando Magic signs NBA No. 1 draft pick Shaquille O’Neal

Next Swampy’s Florida Live should be August 15th at 7pm.
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Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: Bok Tower, 1947.

by on August 8, 2024 at 6:00 am
Posted In: Florida Architecture, Florida Paperwork, Florida Postcards, Swampy's Collectibles

This colorful Bok Tower postcard is a rare one with the flamingo featured with the carillon. This was mailed December 25th, 1947 from Mother to Mrs Howard Heteisimer in Milton, Indiana.

Click here to go to my Bok Tower page with visiting information.
http://swampysflorida.com/?page_id=9304
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Swampy’s Florida says Happy Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Birthday!

by on August 8, 2024 at 12:00 am
Posted In: Swampy's Strips

As Bunny settles back to read Marjorie Kinnan Rawling’s classic novel, ‘The Yearling’, a yearling runs up and leaps over her.

Rawlings was born today in 1896 in Washington, D.C. In 1928, Rawlings moved to Island Grove, in southern Alachua County. The area she lived, known as Cross Creek, inspired her to write the classics ‘The Yearling’ and ‘Cross Creek’ and other stories in which she used the area as the backdrop. Rawlings died in 1953.
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