This only a portion of the full photograph of the “Louisville and Nashville Railway station.” in Pensacola in 1910 that can be seen on the incredible Shorp.com website. At the site you can actually see the fine detail of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s 1916 in Lutz and little Verda Fletcher finds herself in a peaceful setting of native flowers. This photo is from ‘Citrus, Sawmills. Critters, Crackers – Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County’ by Elizabeth and Susan McManus. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Chalet Suzanne, Lake Wales, 1953.
This postcard of Chalet Suzanne, which closed in 2014, is from a couple celebrating a birthday and a honeymoon in August of 1953. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . #Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Frogs” set loose hundreds of frogs around Wewahitchka in the Panhandle. Frogs you find in the area are likely descendents of the frogs used for this film. The celebrity frog relatives are a bit difficult to get an autograph from,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Creature from the Black Lagoon is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots of The Gill-Man[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Betty’s Restaurant, Miami, @1950s.
Here’s Betty’s Restaurant and Lobo Lounge, 1440 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. The back of he postcard has no postal markings but does state the restaurant was “Established 1931”. it’s long gone now. Below is a view of the location today:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Downtown Wildwood in the 1950s. Source: 2008 Sumter County Historical Calendar.
Jose Huau’s cigar store in Jacksonville at the corner of Bay Street and Pine Street in the 1890s. Huau ran this store and also was an agent of Cuban Junta involving the Spanish-American War. I was at his store that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida’s first flight school opened in Miami in 1912 by aviation expert, Glenn Curtiss. This photo is from ‘Mostly Sunny Days: A Miami Herald Salute to South Florida’s Heritage’, Edited by Bob Kearney. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Historic Photos: Downtown Tampa, 1926.
Here’s Franklin Street in Tampa in 1926. Prominent is the Tampa Theatre, which still thrives today! This photo is from The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 23, page 211. You can purchase a copy for yourself by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an odd place for a police line up…oh…wait..appears these are members of the Indian Rocks Beach Chamber of Commerce. This photo is from ‘Indian Rocks – As It Was’ by the Indian Rocks Beach Historical Society. You can purchase[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: Venetian Pool, Coral Gables, 1930s.
Built in 1924, the Venetian Pool has been one of the highlights of George Merrick’s Coral Gables development. It was created out of a coral quarry dug out at the time during the building of the homes and other structures[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…