Trilby does his best to saunter as fast as he can away from his hungry bunny shadow!
You can learn more about World Sauntering Day by clicking here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauntering_Day
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McKee Jungle Gardens opened in 1932 after Arthur G. McKee & Waldo E. Sexton bought 80 acres of land decided to make part of it a part of it featuring the botanical wonders of Florida and beyond. They made a good go of it as is shown in the brochure. The park was a major stop for those traveling U.S. 1 going north or south from Vero Beach.
The onslaught of the Disney mess toyed with all locations in Florida and shuttered many, including McKee Jungle Gardens in 1976.
After the closure and the coming ’80s building boom, about 3/4 of the property originally bought by McKee & Sexton was transformed into residential lots and wider roads. including a great expanse of the right-of-way of U.S. 1.
The remaining part of the land and part of the park lay fallow until 1996, when the, still-existing, Indian River Land Trust nabbed the property. They went to work to bring McKee Jungle Gardens to return. Thus, in 2001 the, now-named, McKee Botanical Garden returned in a bit different form with the focus of plants and flowers. Like the re-made Silver Springs and other former Florida parks, the McKee critters did not return.
A with the church websites, there’s plenty of verbiage, but little that really displays what is at the park these days compared to the brochure shown here. The website looks like there is only 1 acre to visit as compared to the 18 they have.
Unlike the changes in church websites, this website does have history of the park. Every location in our state that has 50+ of history should be including what has let that location continue to exist.
If you would like to plan a visit to McKee Botanical Gardens, you can click here:
https://mckeegarden.org/
This brochure, as with all you see here, is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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Here’s an interesting postcard of Tropical Park that was once in Miami. The card is not postmarked, so I don’t know when this was printed. I’d guess either in the ’30s or ’40s. A few things that makes this interesting to me. One is how this image is presented. Lots track and sky. The horses are in the middle ground and the viewing area in the background. i wonder why this was printed this way. Something else is that the horse appear to be in the midst of being presented to the crowd. If the photographer knew that, why didn’t they wait and get a photo during a race. Or was this part of a set of photos and there was one printed of the race.
Another interesting thing is that this is labeled as being part of Coral Gables. It’s a reason why i suspect this to be from the ’30s. I don’t consider this to be in Coral Gables today. Or am I wrong?
Please comment below with any thoughts to my questions.
Something to note is the lush landscaping along the track that you can see on the left hand side. I’ve noticed this particularly in images of the tracks from the ’30s to the ’50s. A lot of effort for beauty that was not all that easy to see. Especially if you were in the viewers stand.
The photograph was taken by Gleason Waite Romer who took photos from 1925 until the early 1950’s all over Dade County.
Tropical Park has been gone since 1979 and in it’s place is a public park run by the Miami/Dade government with the same handle.
Click here to plan a trip to visit Tropical Park in Miami. :
https://www.miamidade.gov/parks/tropical.asp
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Trilby celebrates Go Fishing Day and hoping he fares better than the past 2 days of vegetables. He better keep an eye out for trouble, though!
You can learn more about fishing in our state here:
https://www.floridarambler.com/fishing-florida/license-free-fishing-days-in-florida/
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This is a view from about midway on the Mile, looking east towards Douglas Boulevard.
The structures are mostly still there over 80 years later. Even parking is as shown. The “Air Conditioned” pharmacy in the bottom left corner was a Rexall store.
Remember going in there decades ago. One of those places where walking in from the heat into the very contained cold air conditioning and the smell of a pharmacy mixed to stay in the memory. That seems to be a scent gone forever.
Do you remember the pharmacy scent?
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
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