The Duette School closed in February, 2016. There were many efforts to shut down the last remaining school house in Florida due to it’s non-conformity with the Common Core approach to organized schools. The school first opened in 1930 and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Along U.S. 27 north of Palmdale in Glades County and south of Lake Placid in Highlands County is the community of Venus. That is where you will find the giant pineapple. This got propped up many decades ago to pitch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This magnificent structure opened in 1913 as the Kibler Hotel at the corner of Kentucky Avenue and Lemon Street. Three years later the Kiblers flipped the hotel to Henry Carter, who named the hotel Thelma, after his daughter. The Hotel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the ‘Church of the Holy Name’, the first Catholic church in Miami. It was built on eight lots donated by Henry Flagler. This building was replaced with another church in the 1920s and no longer exists. This photo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Halcon Hotel in Downtown, Miami, in “Boom” time 1924. This structure had a French chateau look on the outside, but supposed looked far more plain on the inside. It sat on Flagler Street until 1938 when it was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The courtyard of the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach in 1965. You can visit the Norton Museum of Art. Plan a trip by noting the address and telephone number: Address: 1451 S Olive Ave, West Palm Beach, […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the storefront of an Atlanta travel agency in 1938. This wasn’t an unusual display throughout the U.S. and beyond. Even around Florida travel agents usually had displays of other places in Florida to visit. These days travel agents have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Congregational Church in Coral Gables. The structure is the oldest established building (1923) in Coral Gables. It was built by Coral Gables developer George Merrick in honor of his father, who was a Congregational Minister. The church[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1925 in Coral Gables and a grader treats the land as the Biltmore Hotel is being constructed. This photo is from ‘Floridians at Work: Yesterday and Today’ by Margaret G. Wilson. You can purchase a copy of the book[…]↓ 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…
This is the hallway coming from the main lobby of The Breakers in 1996. This is from the book ‘The Breakers – A Century of Grand Traditions’ by Charles Lockwood. You can purchase one here: https://amzn.to/365xrNh . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a neat view of Downtown St. Petersburg with The Vinoy in the forefront . This postcard was mailed January 1948 from someone calling themselves “552” to Elva Ulrich of Rochester, N.Y. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…