Here’s Juniper Springs July 14th after Swampy’s Rob Smith Jr. gave a talk about water and Florida history as part of Juniper Springs summer lecture series.
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Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: 95ynf Tag, Tampa, 1986.
Above is the back cover of ‘Music’ magazine, Tampa Bay edition, published in May 1986. It’d be tough to pull off a radio promo like that these days. Below is the front cover with jazz artist chick Corea. In today’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch, Silver Springs.
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…
Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: Clearwater Federal Savings in Largo, 1960s.
Here’s an undated postcard of the Clearwater Federal Savings building in Largo. This is amongst the many, many, many independent banks now gobbled up by the international banking system. Just by seeing the current view of the building available using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: El Rancho Hotel Court, Tampa, 1960s.
The El Rancho Hotel Court is still there at 7100 Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. Very unfortunately, the sign is gone. The card isn’t postmarked, but judging by the cars in the back of the motel, I’d say this is sometime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Pompano Square Mall, 1976.
Some very familiar names to Floridians that grace this 1976 ad for Pompano Square Mall.
Here are the pencils to tomorrow’s webcomic!
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: The Sea Escape Bar Menu off Port Canaveral
Here’s the bar menu from the Scandinavian Sea cruise ship which ran as part of the former SeaEscape one day cruises from Port Canaveral. This menu is from 1982.
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Gulf Life Insurance Beach Tickets, Jacksonville Beach
Here are tickets for what appear to be rides and games along Jacksonville Beach in 1948.
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards : Wayside Park, Pensacola – 1952
Here’s a 1952 postmarked postcard of a rest area in Pensacola. It’s still there! Click here to see the east side park and here for the west side park.
Here Terisa Glover works to create a new Swampy, working from design to sewing to stuffing. What will he look like? A bit more like the cartoon version. When can you see him? The new Swampy will be revealed on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy made his way to Mt. Dora this past week… Amongst Swampy’s stops was to Julianne’s Coastal Cottage, which has all Florida based or made products. The photo above is of Swampy with a Kermit’s (from Key West) chocolate covered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…