Anyone else remember these days? I do! Amazing to not see this kind of display very few places across Florida these days! Post below any memories you have of citrus displays! This postcard of the Tropical Fruit Shippers of Sarasota[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection…..#Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Collectibles #PalmBeach #GardenOfEden
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard Saturday: Fontainebleau & Eden Roc, Miami Beach.
This unmailed postcard shows The Fontainebleu on the left and the Eden Roc on the right. The hotels had quite a rivalry back in the ’50s and still battle it out for customers today. Both hotels were designed by Morris[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard Saturday: The east garden of the Kapok Tree Inn, Clearwater, 1972.
This postcard mailed in 1972 is of the east garden of the Kapok Tree Inn in Clearwater. The giant statuary holding the ferns is the ‘Three Graces’. The statue is of German origin from sometime in the 1700s. The postcard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard #Monday: Tropical Hobbyland, #Miami.
This postcard of Tropical Hobbyland, that was in Dade County at the time, wasn’t mailed but would guess this is from around 1940. Tropical Hobbyland featured the Miccosukee Tribe of indians. Miccosukee women posed in handmade & colorful costumes and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The structures are mostly still there nearly 80 years later. Even parking is as shown. The “Air Conditioned” pharmacy in the bottom left corner was a Rexall store. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. #Postcard #FloridaPostcards #Miami[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the back of the card is stamped: ‘Courtesy of the Tampa Information Bureau of the Tampa [Fla.] Board of Trade”. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard Thursday: The Florida Pool, Cypress Gardens, 1961.
Here’s the Esther Williams swimming pool that once was part of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven. The postcard scene if from the Esther Williams film ‘Easy to Love’, also starring Van Johnson and Tony Martin. The postcard was mailed June[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services: St. James Catholic Cathedral, Orlando, about 1950.
This is St. James Catholic Cathedral in Orlando that is still standing in the same spot and looks nearly identical now as it did in the postcard above. Click here to learn more and to plan a visit to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.)
Here’s an early unmarked postcard of Winter Park Mall. The fountain seen sat as you see it here until a marble ring was built around it around 1980 or so. Winter Park Mall was demolished about seventeen years ago to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Venetian Pool in Coral Gables. – Swampy’s Florida Postcards.
Here is a place many in Coral Gables and southern Miami learned how to swim. It is right in the midst of a residential neighborhood and has always been a highlight of Coral Gables. It is still open today and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…