A sight to see! Tourists would go to watch the penned sea turtles, called “turtle crawls” or “kraals”, as they swim and bob about. This postcard doesn’t have a date, but I would say the 1940s. The sea turtles were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I In the foreground is the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Downtown Tampa. The cars may have changed, but the buildings today are generally the same as when this photo was taken some 60+ years ago. This postcard doesn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a large, undated postcard for Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Camp-Resort on west US 192 in Kissimmee, just south of Disney World. This was one of two in the area. The other one was about five miles away on Turkey Lake[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who shopped at Belk Lindsey? Here’s a Belk Lindsey Charge Account brochure from around 1980. The brochure is from store # 486, which was the store that was a part of Colonial Plaza Mall in Orlando. On the back has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now here’s how to get through traffic jams! This undated postcard seems to be from around 1900. Oddly, in the corner is a variation of our Florida seal with the words below it: ‘In God We Trust’. This postcard is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first image is the inside and the photo is the outside. Looks like one might have been better for the other.
Here’s a postcard of the old Casper’s Gator Jungle. Caspar’s was along US 1 a couple miles north of Dowtown St Augustine. James Casper opened it in 1946 and, after some changes in ownership over the years, it closed in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a 1948 postmarked postcard of the Johnson Terrace that was, at one time, in Downtown Jacksonville. Arnold Norman sent the card from Jacksonville to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Norman wrote to “Toots” that he had been swimming “in the Gulf of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All Posts Here’s the US Sugar Corp. Mill in Clewiston in 1962. The card claims this is the largest raw sugar mill in the continental United States. I believe these structures still exist there. Much of US Sugar’s structures in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an unmarked postcard of the Vero Beach shuffleboard courts. They are still there though the structures around it are very different and that water tower in the background is gone. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s The Conch Train in Key West! This is an undated postcard and the clothes folks are wearing aren’t all that different than what folks would wear today. So, I’m not sure what year this is from, but would guess[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the Weeki Wachee mermaids of 1967! This postmarked postcard was sent by “Ellen, Jim and fam.” to McKean, Pa. The postmark is from Pinellas Park. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…