Here’s #36 of the Flagler System about to depart the Ormond Hotel in Ormond Beach. Learn more by visiting the Florida East Coast Railroad website: https://www.fecrwy.com/about/history………..#Train #FloridaTrain #Railroad #FloridaRailroad #Travel #FloridaTravel #Transportation #FloridaTransportation #FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #PlantCity #PlantcityFlorida
For Trilby food is his jewel! Greenleaf & Crosby opened in 1868 in Jacksonville. Much as Burger King started, the owners packed up and moved south. In southeast Florida stores were opened in Miami Beach and Palm Beach. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo from 1938 in Plant City, Florida, shows, what Florida Memory notes: “This was the arrival of the first diesel powered passenger train in the southeast.” The photograph is from Florida Memory here: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33349…#Train #FloridaTrain #Railroad #FloridaRailroad #Travel #FloridaTravel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Found this photo while poking around here: http://www.movingtotampaguide.com/brief-tampa-history/ . . . . . . . . . . . #Train #Tampa #TampaTrain #Transportation #TampaTransportation #FloridaTravel #Travel #FloridaTravel #Railroad #FloridaTrain
Stopped at a Goodwill a bit earlier and came across, the book, ‘The Log of Christopher Columbus’. The log includes travels between, what would be called, Florida and the Bahamas. Included is this 1547 illustration of a manatee. An interesting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The Side Show of Lovelies” is a way of advertising I haven’t seen involving department stores around Florida. Maybe friends around Ocala might remember this Sears “Carnival”.
Trilby tries to explain how books mysteriously disappeared from Swampy’s library yesterday. During his story a potato plant turns into a dragon and a snack-munching baby alligator becomes a fearless defender of bookshelves. Tomorrow: Celebrate a berry! . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I found this photo on the Miami Transit website and the photograph has this caption: ‘Staff and crew of the Florida East Coast Railway by the streamliner “Henry M. Flagler” in 1939. The Railey-Milam hardware store in the background was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This image was nabbed here – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_Sunbeam_Southern_Railway.JPG – while browsing i\the information super highway. . . . . . . . . . . . . #Florida #RR #Railroad #Transportation #Floridalife #Floridaliving #Floridalifestyle
7 for $1 dollar! Now that’s a New Year’s deal!Get ’em while their hot! This cheery, holiday advertisement from the Daytona Beach Morning News, January 1st, 1962………………#Florida #DaytonaBeach #Hamburgers #Burgers #FloridaRestaurants #Restaurants #Business #FloridaBusinesses #history #Floridahistory #FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #Floridaliving
This one is on the Swampy’s Florida Christmas tree and celebrates Osceola County history and the railroad that blazed it’s way through in the late 1800s.
Zuber has baked plenty of cookies to celebrate! You can learn more about Bake Cookies Day here: https://www.cooksinfo.com/bake-cookies-day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #BakeCookiesDay #Cookie #Celebrate #Daily #Cartoon #DailyCartoon #Cookies[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…