Interesting the images chosen for these postcards. No actual beach shown here. This one is geared toward the boater. This is another general postcard not mailed and it’s unlcear what year it is from. Please let me know if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
This postcard is of the Beverly Garden Apartments in Hollywood Beach – Open all year. The postcard was mailed July 14th to the “Family Herman Meyer” in Germany. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
This postcard isn’t postmarked, but the 1968 grown in the front lawn of the Coral Gables Cit Hall indicates the age. This is one City Hall that looks the same as it did when it was built. It has had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 was mailed July 10th, 1958 to Art Warman in Dayton, Ohio. The note is by Dick, who writes: “Went to the dog track had one winner 13.60 and two quintellas 7.00 and 17.60 (Pick the 1-2 each race)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some things never change…