Posts Tagged Swampys

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Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Flipper’s Sea School, Grassy Key, mid-’70s.

by on September 10, 2013 at 2:08 am
Posted In: Florida Advertising, Florida Amusement Spots, Florida Critters, Florida Paperwork, Florida TV and Movies, Swampy's Collectibles, Swampy's Florida History

Here’s an advertising card for ‘Flipper’s Sea School’ that existed from 1972 to 1977. Prior to that the location was known as ‘Santini’s Porpoise School’ and housed one of the porpoises from the TV series ‘Flipper’. After 1977, the location[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: Rainbow Springs

by on May 30, 2013 at 2:59 am
Posted In: Florida Amusement Spots, Florida Outdoors, Florida Paperwork, Florida Parks, Florida Postcards, Swampy's Collectibles

The submarine looking boat was actually a glass bottom boat that once roamed the Rainbow River from Rainbow Springs years ago.

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Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Hillsborough River State Park

by on May 25, 2013 at 1:57 am
Posted In: Florida Outdoors, Florida Paperwork, Florida Postcards, Swampy's Collectibles, Swampy's Florida History

Here’s a postcard of Hillsborough River State Park that’s postmarked 1967 and sent to Westlake, Ohio by a Owen Richart. He writes something that’s hard to read about wind in Ocala and a trip to Juniper Springs.

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