George Jenkins opened Publix in 1930 in Winter Haven. By 1940 he opened his first glass and marble Publix Food Store also in Winter Haven near where his first store had been. Above is opening day. Below is what it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement if from the January 26th, 1984 edition of the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
I posted the photo above last week while in Lakeland on Facebook. It’s the new Tax Collector’s office. Promising to post more photos, i add them now below. It’s an amazing restoration of an early Publix Supermarket. Publix is based[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s friend, Mike Clark introduced his child, Connell,to the delights of a Publix cookie today. All of us in Florida have had that first cookie. What do you remember of your or your child’s first cookie?
This Publix ad is from the Springtime Tallahassee program from 1978.
Here’s a familiar site to long time Floridians! Publix, Woolworth, appliance store, etc. This photo is from Swampy’s friend Tim Hollis’s book, ‘Selling the Sunshine State’. You can buy one by clicking here or below.
Who remembers what these were for? Many of us old enough collected many, many of these and stuck them in a stamp book. Then we went to a store and traded them for toasters and lamps. Publix had the Green[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See the arch? It’s still there in Lakeland on Florida Avenue! So is the Publix and the Hardware store. The rest of the stores are gone. This card is from around 1970. Interesting that the lineup of stores of W.T.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here Swampy finds the Southgate sign at the Southgate Shopping Center on US98 in Lakeland. Click here to learn a lot more about the sign and the shopping center from the Lakeland Ledger. Below is a photo of shops inside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…