Here Swampy at the Breakers in Palm Beach. The Breakers is considered one of the grandest hotels in the U.S. that railroad magnate, Henry Flagler, started in 1896. Click here to learn more.
Here’s the Riverview Hotel in New Smyrna Beach. To the right, where the white signs hang, is the original part of the hotel built in 1885 by Captain S.H. Barber. The building he originally built got raised in 1910 and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
News this week came that The Parliament House in Orlando is facing foreclosure. Above is a postcard for it from the 1960s, not long after it opened. The Baron of Beef restaurant was a premiere place for a steak in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when the stirrer at bars were interesting? Here’s one from the old Tahitian Bar at the old Castaways resort that used to be on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. It was on a small part of an inlet there.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the coffee menu for the Hotel Mayflower in Jacksonville. It’s figured the menu is from around 1940. Below are some amazing prices.
Swampy visits the Coral Gables Biltmore, one of the grandest of hotels, that can really be called a resort, in all of Florida. It is a site to be taken in in person. The 1926 building set off a commercial[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…