This postcard is postmarked January 18th, 1919 from Orlando to somewhere in Ohio. The mailer wrote a long message in the back that is very hard to read or understand. The addressee information is just as hard to understand and,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This 1951 postmarked postcard is of the former Solarium that once was one the east side of Lake Estelle in Orlando. Folks would swim and have a beach-like area to go to inland. I’ve heard many stories about the fun[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Dinky Line train in the Orlando rail yard around 1900. The train ran as part of the Orlando-Winter Park Railroad that started in 1889. The train ride was irregular and difficult and it wasn’t unusual for the train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard showing the main entrance of the Orlando Air Force Base off Bennett Road. This entire base is gone as well as all of the entrances that looked like this throughout Florida. The only nod to the base[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Colonial Plaza Mall, Orlando, 1965.
It’s the “new Million Dollar Air Conditioned Shopping Mall. The largest in the South.”, Colonial Plaza in Orlando. The mall was mostly demolished almost 20 years ago to make way for the current wave of outdoor malls. This postcard is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Orlando Motor Lodge, 1967.
This postcard is marked 1967 and sent to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Danforth in Bonita Springs, Florida. They write of visitors from New Smyna Beach and Miami to the place they just cleaned. They end with a note that the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Knowing the area over the decades, this unmarked postcard appears to be of the southeast corner of Lake Eola. Maybe along Central Boulevard. It appears to be from around 1910. If you look close you can see two trails to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dr. Phillips Orange Juice Fountain, 1952, in Orlando. – Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads.
2 miles north of Orlando, at the time, sat this structure. I’ve been told it was taken down sometime in the ’60s. I believe it was somewhere around where the current intersection of 441 and Lee Road is. What a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby loses out to Carrot Cake Day to, the fast as a bunny, Amelia, the rabbit. Have to re-mention Charlie’s Bakery / Charlie’s Gourmet Pastries – Orlando for their carrot cake. Have had a whole lot of Charlie’s carrot cake[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s “Leon the Fruit Man” with crates of citrus waiting to picked up on N. Orange Avenue in the heart of Downtown Orlando in 1937. Leon Kazanzas got orders from visitors and residents to ship citrus to friends and relatives[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Dubsdread Country Club, Orlando, 1950s.
“Dubsdread’s Tropical Winter Rendezvous” as the back of the postcard states of #Orlando‘s Dubsdread Golf Course. The postcard isn’t postmarked, but appears to be from around 1950.