For a good part of the 20th century along the tourist trails throughout Florida were shops that sold all variations of driftwood found along the Florida shore line. All shapes and sizes of Florida driftwood was picked up as souvenirs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked postcard appears to be from the late 1960s of Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg. You can still visit Sunken Gardens today. Click here to plan your trip to this Florida botanical wonder. Save
This was what one side of the Dubsdread pool looked like many decades ago when there was a pool at all at the Dubsdread Country Club just north of the College Park neighborhood in the most northern part of Orlando[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This undated postcard does describe the location on the back – ‘Cleveland Street business section looking west, Clearwater, Florida’. By the cars, I’d say this is from around 1960. Obviously, by the lights and star, around Christmas time. Please post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Miami Beach, it’s Jean’s Candy Shoppe. Don’t know anything about Jean’s so please feel free to leave a note if you do. Jean sure had an outstanding book of matches. I’d guess this is from the 1940s. Sorry about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Blue Springs near Orange City. The postcard is postmarked from 105 years ago, February 19th, 1908. Then as now you can find the endangered manatee roaming the waters at certain times of the year. The park is now Blue[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Lake Eola, a gift to Orlando by, one of my heroes, Jacob Summerlin, King of the Crackers. I recall once years ago trying to place a year and location for this postcard, but can’t recall now what I figured.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Hair Design Studio in Coral Gables! This where a “M. Josef”, as stated on the back of the postcard, is the “Master of the Art of Beauty” and will “Unmask the beauty that is yours”. The card is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked postcard looks to be from around 1970. The location is the fantastic Homosassa Springs, a location to visit if you haven’t. Click here to learn more.
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 of the old Caspar’s Gator Jungle. I wish this postcard had two things: 1) a postmark 2) an address. I’ve seen much about Caspar’s over the years. I know I’ve read about it, but the memory is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s, what is known today, as Flagler College in St. Augustine. At the time of this undated postcard this was, as it was built, the Hotel Ponce deLeon built by Florida pioneer Henry Flagler as he built the Florida East[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…