…and I better get “This Strip”… especially for $2!!! This hilarious ad is from a copy of ‘This Week’ from November 8th, 1953. ‘This Week’ was an advertising circular for many, many years around Broward County. If you have any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Looks Like Spring Break 1975 in Fort Lauderdale!
Somebody named Betty mailed this to Missouri in 1975 informing Ed not to be worried about the “lite bill”, she’ll take care of it when she gets home. In the meantime, it looks like she was enjoying Fort Lauderdale Beach[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Southernaire Motel, Tallahassee, about 1960.
Here’s an undated postcard of the Southernaire Motel in Tallahassee. The only address given on the back of the card is that it was on US90, 1 mile west of the State Capitol. Also “free television” and “private telephones”. Apparently[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Flagler’s Hotel Ponce de Leon in Saint Augustine.
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…
Swampy’s Florida Matchbook Wednesday: Sea Turtle Inn, Atlantic Beach.
Here’s a matchbook for the former Sea Turtle Inn that sat in Atlantic Beach. The building was demolished over ten years. Just after another hotel was built with the pretentious name of One Ocean Resort. Click here to know more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement for the restaurant and lounge that used to be at the legendary Thunderbird on Treasure Island, south of Clearwater. The ad is from the St. Petersburg Evening Independent, January 27th, 1970. Click here to learn more about the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mailed February 25th, 1952, from a couple whose last name I can’t read. They mailed it to Mrs. and Rev. William George in Columbus, Ohio. The couple write that the temperatures are “not to cold and not to hot.’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Plaza Hotel along the Indian River in Brevard County, near Cocoa around 1900. This was a showplace of hotels and the greatest hotel of it’s type in the area in the late 1800s. Often compared to it’s Flagler[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
8 months after starting construction of the Coral Gables Biltmore it was finished in 1926. Builder George Merrick was in a hurry. He was also about to go broke. It was years later before The Biltmore would be purchased and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard, labeled ‘The Bathing Beach’. In the background is the original Breakers building prior to the fire of 1926. The new Breakers building was rebuilt in a very different style of the Renaissance palace, Villa Medici. The message[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads: The Breakers Shoe Cleaner, Palm Beach.
Here’s an actual shoe mitt to help wipe the sand and dust from your shoes after strolling the palatial layout known as The Breakers. I figure this is from the 1940s. I’m gonna try to alternate between brochures, flyers and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: ‘Dam’ Yankee’ in Fort Lauderdale, 1961.
This is my favorite name for a motel/hotel/etc. in our state! Right on A1A in the heart of the beach tourists! Now, it would appear this name is due to a general dislike of the Northerner. However, it’s important to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…