It’s the Hotel Continental that once stood at the corner of Collins Avenue and 40th Street featured on this unmarked postcard.
Cool Signs: ‘The Banyan Tree Motel’ on 4th Street in St. Petersburg.
Here’s teh still surviving El Rancho Hotel Court, now more referred to as a motel. I seem to recall the sign being around in the early ’80s. Don’t know when the sign came down, but would guess it was during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s The Gifford Arms in Orlando in the 1950s. Over time the name changed to The Howard Vernon Motor Lodge and has that name today. A map below shows how the hotels look today. View Larger Map
A matchbook from the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach.
The El Rancho Hotel Court is still there at 7100 Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. Very unfortunately, the sign is gone. The card isn’t postmarked, but judging by the cars in the back of the motel, I’d say this is sometime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are parts of a fold out brochure for the Copacabana Motel in Daytona Beach. I think the lawyers today would advice the Copacabana Motel not to have the image of the folks sitting on the ledge. A search[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an envelope that was available in the Mayflower Hotel in Jacksonville in the 1930s. Top is the front. Below is the back of the envelope.
Swampy made his way into Orange County and found the Santa standing guard outside the Park Plaza Gardens on Park Avenue in Winter Park. Here’s a gigantic Christmas tree in Central Park on Park Avenue in Winter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This brochure for The Glades is from 1951. A quick look and apparently The Glades is still around, just no website. If anyone knows more about the location, please leave a comment below!
Swampy finds an early version of a barber chair at the Riverview Hotel in New Smyrna Beach. Click here to learn more and plan your own visit to the Riverview Hotel.
This matchbook is for the Flamingo Court Motel. It once stood right beside the Orlando Motor Lodge, the matchbook of which was featured last week. Both hotels were demolished to have another medical office building built in the area.