This brochure for the Upper Keys (From the Card Sound curve to Long Key) has a nifty cover illustration and a pretty routine layout otherwise. Though fishing is far less popular than it was decades ago, there’s still plenty of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmailed postcard is a bit stuffed with place names and a list of bridges slapped on top of the map image. It does have a nice listing of the many, many points along the Keys, if you can read[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an advertising card for ‘Flipper’s Sea School’ that existed from 1972 to 1977. Prior to that the location was known as ‘Santini’s Porpoise School’ and housed one of the porpoises from the TV series ‘Flipper’. After 1977, the location[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the 1920s the Thompson family just off Key West would capture sharks and later bale the meat to ship out to food shops and restaurants.