This photo was sent in by Peter Updike of “Looking up from the bottom of an oak tree, what a sight. Bike ride the Lake Panasofkee WMA great sights, Great Florida.”
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Neat evening shot of the Silvermoon Drive In in Lakeland. The drive-ins are still out there! Do you have one near you?
1972 was the last time a presidential convention has happened in Florida. By happenstance, both the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention met in Miami Beach a few weeks from each other. It has, so far, been the last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A young lady and a baby gator! this 1896 is not an unusual site as tourists visiting Florida saw these little fellows as not much different than a lizard. They would buy them and carry them around in a cigar[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Friday, August 24th, a marker to the television series ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ was unveiled at Lori Wilson Park off A1A in Cocoa Beach. The commemoration was to recognize the the popular TV series took place in Cocoa Beach,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nail Armstrong died today. He was 82 and died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. Armstrong was selected to take a ride to the moon on Apollo 11 in December 1968. After that there was rigorous training. Above is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As this is written The Garden Cafeteria in St. Petersburg is being demolished. The building was designed buy St. Petersburg’s first architects and for 40 years had the restaurant shown in the postcard above. Later the building was known as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Long time actress Phyllis Thaxter died on August 14th in Longwood. We’ve been seeing many celebrities in their final days in Florida and thought we would start giving them a nod here. Both actors Ron Palillo and Davy Jones died[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a great photo of early tourism in Florida. This being at the Shady Rest Tourist Camp in 1929 near Brooksville. From the May 2012 copy of ‘Old Brooksville in Photos & Stories‘. This is terrific little monthly publication available[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the legends of comic books, Joe Kubert died Sunday, August 12th, Joe was not born, did not live, or draw about Florida. However, Swampy’s handler, Rob Smith, Jr., me, did go to Joe’s school, The Joe Kubert School[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a wonderful mural in Okeechobee! It’s at 204 North Parrott Avenue, Okeechobee, FL. A Sprint cell phone store fronts the building. Here’s another part of the mural. Here’s the plaque that goes with it that gives a list of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From ‘The Golden Coast’ by Harnett Kane.