Here’s Swampy at Arnold’s Royal Castle, 12490 NW 7th Avenue, in North Miami. The front is as many Royal Castles were as they closed in the mid-60s. This one and one near Hialeah are the two that survived in Florida.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy stops in Christmas in eastern Orange County to feature Fort Christmas Baptist Church at 23600 E. Colonial Drive. Don’t know when the church was built. Pastor Ken Mann, in 2013, told me the church was built in 1946. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Got in 3 miles hiking Friday. Hadn’t done that in far too long. After getting the alternator replaced in the car, was advised to drive it every day for a week. Just not very far. The mechanic folks are worried[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This church at Peachtree St and Massachusetts Avenue in Lakeland has lost some stained glass as of the time I took this photo in 2013. Since then, the structure has had a slew of troubles and is now “permanently closed”.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida traveled to Leesburg on Veterans Day to honor a family of veterans. Swampy’s friend, Sarah Hardy has a family goes way back in Florida history. The photo above is of a large part of her immediate family. Most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stuckey’s as it was in 2004 in Yeehaw Junction, the one-time crossroads for cowboys some 125 years ago along, what is now, US 441 and SR 60, just off the Florida Turnpike. After decades pumping gasoline, providing burgers and pecan[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Unfortunately, the church doesn’t have a website and there are no markings on the building telling when the building was built. Fortunately the Facebook page added since I took this photo in 2013 reveals the building was opened in 1912.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one of the eagles at Homosassa Springs State Park I took a photo of a few years ago………….#Flordia #Eagles #4thofJuly #happy #Holidays #FlordiaLife #FloridaLifestyle #FloridaLiving Save Save Save
It’s ice cream time! …isn’t it always in Florida? 😀 Swampy made a stop at Del’s Freez in Melbourne for a banana split. As you can see in the photo, that is some great split! Got my first hot dog[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is The Empire Room of the old Hotel Roosevelt in Jacksonville. This dining area was once considered one of the best in the southeast. That unfortunately ended September 1st, 1926 when a fire at the hotel became the greatest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked post card is of the Sand Dollar Restaurant and Cocktail lounge in St. Petersburg. It had Florida’s only “Merry-Go-Round Lounge”. The back of the card states the location is on US 19 south of Central Plaza. That makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
April Fools! Make that a telephone switchboard in Miami in 1921. This photo is from ‘Telephony in Florida Since 1877’ by Howard E. Carraway and in the Swampy library. You can get your own copy of this book by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…