Do you have memories of Farm Stores? Place yours in the comments! Farm Stores is another Florida born and raised company and still with us today. Since 1957 Farm Stores was known for the large spotted cow that was always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The war was on and a message of diligence, being watchful and giving those protecting America a wide berth was the message during the scary days of WWII. The concern for Florida was the bad guys coming by sea to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Take You Child to the Library and Trilby was briefly in the library until he was caught eating through the cookbook section. So Zuber gets the honor to read a book as Trilby examines the corner for an hour[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The gang doodles for National Doodle Day! Alva, the mouse, doodles a Lion for Lion Country Safari, West Palm Beach. Trilby doodles a steak thinking about a great steak at Tropical Acres Steakhouse, Fort Lauderdale. Zuber doodles Bok Tower Gardens,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a promotional shot of 3 E9 A locomotives of the Florida East Coast Railway fleet in Downtown Miami in 1955. The E9 A were considered by their crews to be the “Cadillac” of engines due to the power[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Venetian Pool in Coral Gables during last week’s trip. It overall looks so much as it always has. A closer look sees so many alterations made over the years.
This is looking south from the Firestone estate property all the way out, way in the background, Key Biscayne. This photo is from ‘Miami, U.S.A. ‘ by Helen Muir. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Here’s the DeSoto Fountain in Coral Gables, Florida, which is the subject of this year’s Swampy’s Florida Christmas card this year. This photo was taken not long after it was finished being built. Will reveal the Swampy Christmas card over[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bit chilly to take to the water at the moment. But these folks are getting well dunked in the surf at Miami Beach in 1921. This image if from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’ by Richard Bowe. You can get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a postcard of the Robert Richter Hotel mailed December 26th, 1951 to the Vegetable Section of the USDA in Wyndmoor Pennsylvania. There is a sub-section mentioned – E.R.R.L. Don’t know what that means but taht is where the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the first wire photograph sent of a football game and the game was in 1935 in Miami at, what was then called, the ‘Orange Bowl Festival’. This photo is from ‘Fifty Years on the Fifty: The Orange Bowl[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are some lovely ladies getting even lovelier courtesy of beauticians of Chez Maurice in Miami in 1939. This photo is from ‘Floridians at Work’ by Margaret Wilson. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…