The Fort Harrison Hotel is still standing on Fort Harrison Avenue as it did when the hotel opened in 1926, at the height of the Florida Boom. It remained a hotel until 1975 when the Church of Scientology bought the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back when Downtowns were downtowns.NONE of this exists anymore as seen here. This was once a thriving community. Today the area is cluttered with typical municipal government ‘traffic calmers’. That is medians down the center of the road with trees[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of Clearwater Beach was mailed December 31, 1959 by Ada to Paul Fummer in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Ada writes that she saw strawberries, cane sugar, cattle and “nice black soil”. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where can you buy towels by the pound these days? The info on the back says it was on US 19, 4 miles north of Clearwater. There’s only a P.O. Box given in Dunedin. I’m not sure if this would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was 17 members of the Clearwater community who came together in 1891 to start the Clearwater Presbyterian Church. Today it’s known as the Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church. This is a postcard mailed June 6th, 1944 from William Christie, 718[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of Clearwater Beach is not postmarked, though it appears to me to be from about the late 1960s. What do you all think? This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . #POstcards[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The postcard of “the little white church by the sea” doesn’t have a postmark though it appears to be from around 1970. There is another “Little White Church” in Clearwater that is, these days, known as Peace Memorial Presbyterian Church.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The congregation formed the church in 1866. The building above was built in 1923 and was used until the church moved in 2005 and became Calvary Church. You can learn more about the church, it’s new location and more by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Clearwater depot of the 1880s seems to stand empty as an Orange Belt train leaves the station. This photo is from ‘The Plant System Of Railroads, Steamships And Hotels: The South’s First Great Industrial Enterprise’ by Gregg M. Turner[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t know when this matchbook was used. It was before Haines Road changed to McMullin Booth Road. Mid-1970s, I would guess.
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…
Here’s a matchbook from the old Florida Bank of Commerce in Clearwater from the 1970s. Today there is another set of banks with the same name but unrelated in Central Florida. New banks will often pick up names of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…