A postcard with the image of a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540-K with “huge eight cylinder supercharged engine”. According to the back of the postcard, the King of Afghanistan bought this in 1937 for $40,000. It was at one time part of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tim Reynolds, and his son Daniel, deliver 1200 copies of the fresh off the press ‘Swampy’s Florida: Silver Springs State Park’ to Deb Wilson, ranger at Silver Springs State Park in Marion County, Florida. Now that the book has been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are two sides of a 1960 Silver Springs brochure.
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…