This skyline has changed quite a bit since 1955, when this postcard was available. This postcard has a postmark! Sent to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1955. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swimming fun at The Sea Gull along Miami Beach. The postcard isn’t post marked, but I’d say this is sometime in the early ’60s. The Sea Gull is still there! The Sea Gull is still there! However, it is caught[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard from the 1880s showcasing Jacksonville’s grandest places to stay at the time. Included is the Everett House and the Carleton House and a view of Bay Street with the St. Johns River beyond it. This postcard is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Notice the horse and buggy on the beach. Would that be allowed today? 🙂 This is a postcard that was hand painted to add color. With no postmark, would have to date this in the early 1900s. This postcard is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where can you buy towels by the pound these days? The info on the back says it was on US 19, 4 miles north of Clearwater. There’s only a P.O. Box given in Dunedin. I’m not sure if this would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This card of the St. Johns River is part of a set that is unmarked but identified as coming from the 1880s. We’ve been featuring this set in the past few weeks. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an 1880s postcard of a steamship along the Ocklawaha River in Marion County. The person this was bought from is the one who tagged this and more in a set as being from the 1880s. There isn’t a postmark[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s another of the 1880s postcards recently aded to the Swampy collection. It features Fort Mantanzas and a steamboat of the Ocklawaha River. Fort Matanzas has it’s name due to Spanish conquistador Menendez massacre of nearly an entire population of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked post card seems to be from around 1930. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . . #Florida #JacksonvilleFlorida #Postcards #FloridaPostcards #Collectibles #Jacksonville #FloridaFun #History #FloridaHistory #FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #RealFlorida #PostOffice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From the Platt Street Bridge is a view of Downtown Tampa. Below the bridge is the Hillsborough River. Practically everything in view here is gone now. There is no date on this postcard, but guesstimating from the structures that this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The dog track opened in 1933 in Sulphur Springs, an area that was becoming it’s own city. As time went on the City of Tampa took over and the dog track continued. It wasn’t until the greyhound racing ban that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Tahitian Inn in Tampa first opened in 1953 and still stands on South Dale Mabry Highway. It has changed a lot since this undated postcard came out in the 1960s. Dale Mabry has only gotten louder since 1953, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…