Who remembers Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour? The Pig’s Trough? Today re-begins posts about matchbooks from Florida. The first one being quasi-Florida. The Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours were only in select locations around the state, like Tampa, Altamonte Springs, etc. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jimmy Fazio moved to Broward County in ’52 and continued a string of food and entertainment establishments he had started in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His House of Ribs was one of the best known. Fazio died in ’98 and here is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Without an actual address, it’s hard to know where this was. Below is what is at 89th Street and the beach today. The building on the right is too new. The one on the left may have been The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a matchbook for Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach.
A quick internet search finds no sign of the ‘New Fort Pierce Hotel’ and with no address on the matchbook, don’t know where this is or was. We do know to stay there was “Delightful but Inexpensive”. Below is the[…]↓ 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…
One of the best known restaurants on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Hackey’s Restaurnat expanded to Miami Beach. Hackney’s in Atlantic City closed in the early 1980s. Don’t know when the one in Miami Beach closed or about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If only Burkett’s was open, I’d enjoy life more! Don’t know much about Burkett’s. Please feel free to write about it in the comment area.
Here’s a matchbook of what was named the West Flagler Kennel Club. It’s still there, but now named the “Magic City Casino”. Seems this is from the 1940s. Please add to the comments if you might have a better estimate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an interesting matchbook of the Coral Gables Biltmore that clearly labels it the “Miami Biltmore”. From the style and the images on the matchbook, I’d guess this to be from the 1940s.