A postcard of a “River Scene’ in Clermont in Lake County. This is undated but would guess is from sometime in the early part of the last century. I would also guess the “River” is really somewhere between Lake Minneola[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Paperwork
Anyone else remember these days? I do! Amazing to not see this kind of display very few places across Florida these days! Post below any memories you have of citrus displays! This postcard of the Tropical Fruit Shippers of Sarasota[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The back of the postcard declares – “Worlds Safest”. World’s safest what i don’t know.The postcard wasn’t mailed, but I’d age it around 1960. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection…..#Florida #Postcard #FloridaPostcards #Travel #FloridaTravel #Floridalife #FloridaLifestyle #Tourists[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard: ‘Greetings from Florida!’, 1968.
This postcard was mailed April 10th, 1968 to Miss Joanne Ferrara of Brightwaters, New York. The mailer, Susan Seffers, writes that it’s 88 degrees and she is seeing lots of palm trees. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Dupree Gardens in Pasco County.
Here’s a postcard from the 1940s when Dupree Gardens in Pasco County was open. Click here to learn more about J. William Dupree and Dupree Gardens. – http://www.fivay.org/dupree_gardens.htmlThe property now is mostly a housing development. This postcard is part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Saturday: Beverly Gardens Apartments, Hollywood Beach, 1958.
This postcard is of the Beverly Garden Apartments in Hollywood Beach – Open all year. The postcard was mailed July 14th to the “Family Herman Meyer” in Germany. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
This postcard is part of a larger pack of postcards of Orlando. The postmark is a bit tough to read involving what year in the 1920s. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida colleciton……#Flordia #Orlando #OrlandoFlorida #Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Cherokee[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Monday: The famous Adagio pose at Weeki Wachee!
The famous Weeki Wachee pose that has been around 70 years and still featured as an emblem of the park. A statue of the pose sits a few stories high near the entrance. As the pose was performed in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: Bridge at Sulphur Springs, Tampa.
This postcard isn’t postmarked but appears to be from the early 1900s. Sulphur Springs used to be a community all to itself. Now it’s a hard to find part of Tampa. The Sulphur Springs tower that can be seen from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard: Roseate Spoonbills in the Everglades.
This postcard is part of a pack of Everglades cards. The package is undated, but would figure around 1970. The postcard pack is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection…..#EVerglades #Roseate #Spoonbills #RoseateSpoonbills #Birds #FloridaBirds #Aviary #Environment #Watger #FloridaWater #nature #FloridaNature[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Friday Train Stops: Trilby-San Antonio RR Depot
Here;s the Trilby-San Antonio railroad depot that still stands in Pasco County. This depot serviced the “Orange Belt Route” as a Atlantic Coast Line Station. This is an undated postcard, but would guess this is from the mid-1960s.
Swampy’s Florida Ads – Orlando – Wigwam Village Motel -1952
This is certainly one of the most legendary motel/hotels in Central Florida. Still remembered today by the locals, it is still missed when nearly 50 years ago the set of motel tee pee rooms was demolished to make way for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…