Today it’s easy to roar down US27 in Glades County and not even realize you went by the tiny community of Palmdale. This photo is of the train that makes a stop at the Palmdale depot to drop off parcels[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Swampy’s Florida Postcards: New River, Fort Lauderdale, 1950
This postcard of the New River is part of a Fort Lauderdale souvenir folder. Those were usually made up of images already available as individual postcards. This one has a 1950 copyright stated. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the repair crew for boats coming into the Pensacola docks in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Pensacola: Florida’s First Place City : A Pictorial History’ by Jesse Earle Bowden.You can purchase a copy by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Ads from today, 1971: ‘Mr. Steak’, Sarasota, with oddly worded ad.
This advertisement has some very odd wording. Not sure what “Family Place” would have “Best Girl Friend”s to look for. There was an even odder worded ad that I can’t show here. At the time the wording for that ad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Kennedy Space Center, 1970
This postcard of the John F. Kennedy Space Center is postmarked June 30, 1970. It was sent by Donna to her father, Paul Reese, in Feltonville, Ohio. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection……….#NASA #Space #Spacetravel #capeCanaveral #Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby is no longer grouchy. You can learn more about World Food Day by clicking here: http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/ . . . . . #WorldFoodDay #Food #celebrate #Celebration #Happy #Celebrate #Celebration #DailyCartoon #Daily #Cartoon #Eat #Florida Save
Here’s the War Price & Ration Board in Sarasota in the 1940s. This photo is from ‘Sarasota: A Sentimental Journey’ by Jeff LaHurd. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/2G398CA This book is part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This theater card is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Clearwater Beach, 1959.
This postcard of Clearwater Beach was mailed December 31, 1959 by Ada to Paul Fummer in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Ada writes that she saw strawberries, cane sugar, cattle and “nice black soil”. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1880s in the business district on the main street, Wire Street, in Fort Meade. This photo is from ‘In the Midst of All That Makes Life Worth Living: Polk County, Florida, to 1940.’ You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson.You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.http://amzn.to/2c3C21F This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection……………>>#floridaeastcoastrailway #Train #Friday #floridatravel #Train #Transportation #History #FloridaHistory #Travelhistory #FloridaTRavels #floridatransportation #trains #Miami[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard showing the main entrance of the Orlando Air Force Base off Bennett Road. This entire base is gone as well as all of the entrances that looked like this throughout Florida. The only nod to the base[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…