A fencing pose led by little Lucille Heintz in the 1940s at the Lido Casino in Sarasota. This photo is from ‘Sarasota Times Past’ by Bernice Brooks Bergen. Click here to purchase your own copy of the book or below.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to imagine Siesta Key, Sarasota, once looked like this. So much of this wiped away since 1950. From ‘Yesterday’s Sarasota’ by Del Marth.You can get your own copy of this book of historic photos and captions by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sylvia Groom realty had been still around! Seems the children have continued the business when I first posted this in 2013. Then, the business was part of Realtor.com. Now, that is gone. There had been a Patch blurb with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This ad for the now defunct Altair is from a Sarasota visitor’s guide from 1982. Then, as now, various smaller plane lines used the Sarasota airport. Altair has been one of many airlines that have come and gone, using the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Seaboard Air Line making a stop during World War II in Sarasota. From ‘Yesterday’s Sarasota’ by Del Marth. You can get your own copy of this book of historic photos and captions by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3bSkuom This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement is from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, July 15th, 1958. The ad is for the Palmer First National Bank and Trust Company of Sarasota. The Palmer Bank was founded by the early Palmer pioneer family. Since 1924 the bank stood[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the commons of the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota in 1963. Click here to plan a visit to the Ringling Museum of Art. This photo is from Florida – A photographic journey by Hans Hannau. You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visited his friends as Parker Books in Downtown Sarasota. Parker Books carries an amazing amount of books. It also has a grewat supply of Florida books. Here Dan Christian has copies of Susan McManus’ ‘Citrus, Sawmills & Critters, Jeff[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Taffy’s Mens Apparel on St. Armands Circle in Sarasota celebrates 46 years in business this year. More than that it also celebrates in the same location it opened at in 1965. Quite an oddity in Florida. Learn more about Taffy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an ad that was in back of a Sarasota High School football program from October 7th, 1960.
Take me out to the ball game in Sarasota to the Spring Training site of the baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. There’s no date on the back of the card, but I would say this is from the 1940s.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…