This undated postcard must be from the 1920s or so. Wonder what became of those little children? (This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.)
Here’s Wood Citrus Center, the classic look of a roadside stop in Florida for O.J. and gifts. There is no postmark on the back, but based on the car, I would guess the mid ’70s. Agave seafood and Mexican restaurant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an interesting undated postcard. This is what The Florida Orchestra needs: Singing Alligators. It sure would fill some seats!
D.P. Davis developed the, at the time, exclusive Davis Island. This photo from 1934 if the toll booth to and from the island of homes and stores. (The photo spans two pages and I did erased a bit of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Postmarked 1913 this postcard from somewhere near Lee County ended up in Brawley, California. The note on back is a sister not happy that she’s going to have to stay where they are in Florida for “a few more years’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Ross Allen at Silver Springs near Ocala. Here’s what is written on the back of the card: This postcard appears to have been hand colored. There is no postmark on the back. =”570″ height=”364″ />
Lake Placid sure has changed a lot as has the area around the Lake Placid Tower. This postcard is from around it’s beginnings in 1961. Unfortunately there is no date or postmark on the back of the postcard. Currently the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard that has no postmark. It’s labeled on the back: ‘View from wharf with skyline of Tampa, Florida in the background’. The skyline looks like the postcard might be from around 1980. What do you all think? […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a 1960’s postcard of the Toussaud London Wax Museum in St. Pete Beach. Since the attraction opened in 1963 and judging by the age of the car, I’d say this is a postcard from around the time it opened.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is dated from 1955. The message on the back to someone in Largo, Florida, is about the misadventures of a couple and their car that keeps breaking down in Perry, Tallahassee, etc.
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…