Trilby has whipped up an all-natural Trilby special seafood bisque just for Swampy. It’s so fresh it’s almost alive! Yesterday at the San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival I was discussing with the two ladies in the neighboring booth to my Swampy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Newberry Restaurant and Tourist Court. Phone: 2411.
The Orange Blossom Cafe is no longer with us in this form. It is now Orange Blossom Catering and you can learn and plan a party with them by clicking here. Below is a photo of their location today. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Below is what inside the matchbook – Below is the full matchbook –
Brevard County, Florida – This morning Big Cypress Swampy emerged from a hollow tree in the wilds of the Big Cypress just south of the Tamiami Trail. He lumbered up and out enough to find the great Florida outdoors illuminated[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy travels all of Florida. Here he visits a location revealed at the end of the short video. Can you figure out where he is before the end of the video?
Below are the full images of the front and back of the matchbook. Above are the two sides of the front cover. To us Ronnie’s fans, there was only ‘The Big 1’ – Ronnie’s!
Swampy has been on the road for the past week and couldn’t post on Twitter. I’ll make up for it here by reposting posts from Facebook. You’ve been posted. 
By the way, you can follow Swampy on Facebook by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a two sided mailer for La Cafe De Paris in Fort Lauderdale from the 1960s. The restaurant opened 50 years ago and is now one of the oldest French restaurants in Florida. Here’s what the building looks like today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Perlman brothers and their father at the original Lum’s in 1956. They took a small bar that served hot dogs in the early ’50s in Miami Beach and turned it into a chain of hundreds of restaurants throughout Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Old Scandia sat right in Downtown Opa-Locka right beside the moorish City Hall. The City Hall building still stands. Unfortunately the restaurant and the building is gone. Click here to read a review of the restaurant from 1950. Here’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a match box from Kelly’s Fish House in Naples. The restaurant opened in 1952 and is still one of thee restaurants to visit while in Collier County. Decorated with historic items, historic photos and tables made by Ben Storter,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…