It’s the famous Kermit’s Key West Lime Shoppe in DeLand! Swampy is with Kevin Solari at the shop with a bevy of lime Key lime based cookies, sauces, jelly beans, teas and even Key lime dog treats. They are most[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Announcing the first publication to carry the new Swampy’s Florida comic – The Lake Gazette in Mount Dora. Here’s Swampy with the owner, Lari Thaw. The Lake Gazette comes out monthly and can be found all over eastern Lake County.
Swampy travels all of Florida. Here he visits a location revealed at the end of the short video. Can you figure out where he is before the end of the video?
With Robert Jr at the infamous fruit/vegetable/antique car/petting zoo known as ‘Robert is Here’. The main attraction are the fresh fruit and vegetable milkshakes and smoothies.
This is the caboose that welcomes visitors to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami. The museum is adjacent to the Miami Zoo. It features the opportunity to fully experience the history of train travel in south Florida. Train cars,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inside the 1991 Ellie’s ’50s Diner, in Boynton Beach, are a series of photos from the area. Here’s one of turn of he century Delray Beach.
Dairy Queen had originally been a short distance from this location in a 1960s built franchise. US1 expanded and took out the parking lot years ago and then five years ago the Publix next door decided to expand. The original[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy Live: at one of Florida’s still standing malls: the Coral Ridge Mall in Fort Lauderdale. Anyone know when the Coral Ridge Mall was built? It looks so much like the 1960s Colonial Plaza in Orlando and the Miracle City[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A stop at the well known watering hole for the ghost set, Ashley’s in Rockledge. The building was constructed in 1928 and has since been a combination bar and restaurant with several names and owners. For the past 27 years[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits The Little Drug Store and Cibu Office Supplies on Canal Street in Downtown New Smyrna Beach. Below is a photo of goodies you can get at The Fountain in The Little Drug Store.
Swampy attended an informative meeting of plans for the property that was the site of Fort King in Ocala. The location was pivotal during the Seminole Wars in the early 1800s. The plans include interpretive hiking trails and, eventually, rebuilding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a packed, packed house at this event celebrating Patrick Smith’s ‘A Land Remembered’ at the W.T. Bland Library in Mt. Dora! It’s extremely heart warming to see such a huge turnout for an event presented by the book’s author’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…