Coming soon is a Florida History book mad especially for home school families. Updates start next week. Here’s a teaser of the cover. The book will be available in July. At the Florida Parent Educators Association convention Swampy’s Florida had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an undated postcard of the Clearwater Federal Savings building in Largo. This is amongst the many, many, many independent banks now gobbled up by the international banking system. Just by seeing the current view of the building available using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Hurricane Season! To celebrate, here’s a photo of a phone booth (Remember those?) in Lakeland after Hurricane Donna, 1960.
The El Rancho Hotel Court is still there at 7100 Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. Very unfortunately, the sign is gone. The card isn’t postmarked, but judging by the cars in the back of the motel, I’d say this is sometime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Saturday, May 19th, from noon until 3pm Swampy will be with 11 other authors & illustrators at Half Off Books in Orange City, Florida debuting the newest in the series, Swampy’s Florida: Wildlife on Land. Rob Smith, Jr. will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are parts of a fold out brochure for the Copacabana Motel in Daytona Beach. I think the lawyers today would advice the Copacabana Motel not to have the image of the folks sitting on the ledge. A search[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some very familiar names to Floridians that grace this 1976 ad for Pompano Square Mall.
A paddlewheel steamer drift into St. Lucie on the Indian River. (From ‘A History of Martin County’)
Here’s a quadra-fold (or something like it) brochure for Ocean Terrace Apartments in Delray Beach. An address wasn’t added to the brochure, so I’m not sure if the apartments are still around. there is a huge condo complex there now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the pencils to tomorrow’s webcomic!
So begins the first streetcar in Coral Gables in 1925 from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’.