The Sportsman’s Lodge was built around 1926-27. It was a lodge mostly for fisherman to stay and then launch into the St. Johns River, drop a line and pulling in fish over days or weeks. The site was located along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s City Island, just east of Beach Boulevard, in Daytona Beach in the 1960s. The field opened in 1914 and Major league Baseball started playing the area in 1920 and still does today. Since this photo, the ballpark has been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard was mailed February of 1941 to Mr & Mrs James Young in Polo, Illinois, from Jim and Ruth Lang. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection……………#Postcard #FlordiaPostcard #Floridana #Lakeland #LakelandFlorida #Boat #Sailing #Sailboat #Collectibles #Sailing #Boats[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are members of the Davis Island Golf and Tennis Club. Wonder what’s in the bottles? The photo was taken by the famous Tampa photographers on December 20th, 1926. This photo is from ‘Real Women of Tampa & Hillsborough County’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the 1909 line up of football players for the University of Florida Gator team. > . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Sports #Football #FloridaSports #Gators #UF #UniersityOfFlorida
Why would vacationers come to Florida to get in a noisy, electronic ride when they can play shuffleboard? Here families have fun in this photo from a 1957 Florida vacation guide. This photo is from ‘Florida Vacation Guide – 1957’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a undated postcard of Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. It’s still with us, though great altered and enhanced since the time of this postcard. EnClick here to learn more: http://www.gulfstreampark.com/ This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bass fishing was one of the top reasons people were tourists in Florida for nearly a century. This photo, from a 1963 Florida vacation guide, certainly booked many a hotel, charter service or boat rental. Of course, those getting to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This card is from 1962 of the “New Daytona International Speeway”. The back of the card exclaims that the cost of the “finest track in the world” designed for speeds over 200 mph was over $3,000,000. Wow! Has this area[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a postcard from around 1970 from the collection that shows the old Grant Field in Dunedin where the baseball team, the Blue Jays, used to use for Spring Training. The ball field was taken apart and replaced with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The postcard, above, shows City Island in Daytona Beach. The island, just east of Downtown Daytona Beach, has been home of horse and car racing and lots of baseball. American sports history was made when Jackie Robinson played baseball on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…