This station looks like small child’s clubhouse until you put the horse and wagon to the left in proportion. The opening looks tall enough to match the train car doors that they would load and unload from. The station once[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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It’s 1898 and the trolley has pulled up to the El Pasaje Hotel and Restaurant in Ybor City. It wasn’t as easy to get around as you might notice with the road surface. Horse power was still the major transportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Dupree Gardens in Pasco County.
Here’s a postcard from the 1940s when Dupree Gardens in Pasco County was open. Click here to learn more about J. William Dupree and Dupree Gardens. – http://www.fivay.org/dupree_gardens.htmlThe property now is mostly a housing development. This postcard is part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a service at Penney Memorial Chapel in Penney Farms, near Jacksonville, in the 1920s. This photo is from ‘Parade of Memories – A History of Clay County, Florida’ by Arch Fredric Blakey. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Friday Train Stops: Trilby-San Antonio RR Depot
Here;s the Trilby-San Antonio railroad depot that still stands in Pasco County. This depot serviced the “Orange Belt Route” as a Atlantic Coast Line Station. This is an undated postcard, but would guess this is from the mid-1960s.
It’s Jacksonville Beach in Duval County around 1975! This area has since become a sprawling mess of sports bars that essentially the same: wings, alcohol, loud music-type sounds and ladies dressed a certain way serving. A good deal of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
What better place for a picnic but on a dock along Hutchinson Island in 1927. This is from the book ‘History of Martin County’ by Janet Hutchinson.You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below.:https://amzn.to/2YN8aBj This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s around 1950 in this photo of the Miami train station. The tall building is the Dade County Courthouse. If you follow that down closer to ground level, you’ll see the actual station that’s a bit obscured by steam. 1950[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Flordia Matchbook Wednesday: Columbia Restaurant, Tampa, 1940s.
A matchbook of The Columbia Restaurant from the 1940s. The restaurant opened in 1905 and still thrives today in Ybor City. In more recent times they expanded to 7 other locations around Tampa Bay, Sarasota, Celebration and St. Augustine. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of Downtown St. Petersburg was mailed on January 19th, 1948 to Miss Elva Ulrich, 175 Clinton North, Rochester, New York. The card states that the sender had been in the hospital and hopes to see the card receiver[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A school bus carrying children from a logging community known as Rouxville to school in Punta Gorda. This photo is from ‘Our Fascinating Past – Charlotte Harbor: The Later Years’ by Lindsey Williams & U.S. Cleveland.Click here to get your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the shuffleboard courts that still sit in Downtown St. Petersburg today. In the background is The Coliseum, which also still stands today. In 1923 the first of the shuffleboard courts opened and still thrive today as a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…