Here’s a 1960’s postcard of the Toussaud London Wax Museum in St. Pete Beach. Since the attraction opened in 1963 and judging by the age of the car, I’d say this is a postcard from around the time it opened.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is dated from 1955. The message on the back to someone in Largo, Florida, is about the misadventures of a couple and their car that keeps breaking down in Perry, Tallahassee, etc.
A postcard of a “River Scene’ in Clermont in Lake County. This is undated but would guess is from sometime in the early part of the last century. I would also guess the “River” is really somewhere between Lake Minneola[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a card from about a hundred years ago featuring Southern Pinellas County. It’s not postmarked, so it’s actual date is uncertain. The landscape indicates the early 1900s. From the Swampy’s Florida collection.
This is “Kahana”, the Water God, during a Polynesian ritual at Tiki Gardens that once graced Indian Rocks Beach. Who remembers Tiki Gardens? This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida postcard collection.
Here’s a postcard of the once very popular Golden Buddha restaurant on the Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. Today this same place is now a Barnacle Bill’s Seafood and Market. The tower has been greatly modified as can be seen in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard of the Florida pool built by Dick Pope at his Cypress Gardens to entice films to be produced at the Winter Have site. He specifically was looking to lasso swimming champ and film star, Esther Williams, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is ‘The Dolphin Restaurant and Marine Village’. Parts of these buildings still stand.
Here a postcard of the early days of Marineland. Shown is the now gone Dolphin pool.
We should all travel like this today in Florida… Imagine how unclogged the roads would be! Here’s a postcard from my Swampy’s Florida collection from the early part of the 20th century.
This postcard is of the entrance to the world famous Silver Springs. There is no date on the card and would figure this to be from around 1960. I seem to recall this picture had a back story to it,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A postcard of Murray Franklin’s in Miami Beach – Where Sinatra discovered Don Rickles. Night clubs dotted A1A during the heydays of entertainment in south Miami Beach. Established and up and coming comedians and singers lined up for clubs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…