This is part of a larger fold-out package of Lake Wales images. There’s an address written that I can’t read of some where in Pennsylvania as if to mail, but no postmark exists on the package. This postcard is part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Downtown St. Petersburg during another Boom, post WW II. The area was thriving and would well into the ’60s.The strip of trees jutting off shore and into the water is what is better known today as the pier area. Hard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Actor, Burt Reynolds built this theater in Jupiter and opened in 1979. It was just north of Riviera Beach where he grew up and his father was a municipal police officer. The theater was very successful at first and Reynolds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the Spring Side Motel in Ocala on Silver Springs Boulevard in the 1950s. The postcard declares a Free T.V. in every room, 28 units and 100% air conditioned. Here’s what the motel looked like in 2007: The motel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the the early Jacksonville airport terminal building with an Eastern Airlines plane waiting for travelers in 1941. The new terminal building had just opened. Within a year this would all change as World War II engulfed flight in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Fort Harrison Hotel is still standing on Fort Harrison Avenue as it did when the hotel opened in 1926, at the height of the Florida Boom. It remained a hotel until 1975 when the Church of Scientology bought the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All of Florida was a botanical wonder before we went on a building spree. This postcard reproduction is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. ….#Postcards #FloridaPostcard #Collectibles #PalmBeach #GardenOfEden #Florida
Here’s what the Maxwell Hotel once looked like. It was once located 441 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. The back of the postcard states: “All modern rooms with private bath.” The card was not mailed and can only figure this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of the former Melbourne Hotel was mailed from Grant, just south of Melbourne, December 11th, 1952 from Flossie to Mrs. Naomi Jackson, 3342 Morrison Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Flossie writes that he didn’t stay at the hotel above, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A 1940s view of Dowtown St. Petersburg. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection…… . #Florida #FloridaLiving #Floridalifestyle #SaintPetersburg #Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Collectables
This postcard wasn’t mailed, but the shape of the roadway would lead me to believe it’s the 1920s or 30s. Though there are roads around Florida like this today, it’s unlikely a postcard would be made of it. This postcard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…