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An interesting location for a baby photo.Wonder where that baby is now. Click here to learn more about Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company trains.- http://hawkinsrails.net/industrials/aslc/aslc.htm….#Train #Railroad #FloridaTrain #TRansportation #Lumber #FloridaBusiness #Travel #FloridaTravel #FloridaLife #Floridaliving #Floridalifestyle
The Pioneer Florida Museum & Village Christmas ornament! Please visit the park soon and see the trilby train depot, Florida first lady doll collection, old school and so much more!Location: 15602 Pioneer Museum Rd, Dade City, 33523Telephone: (352) 567-0262Web Site:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida says Happy Frank Sinatra’s 100th Birthday!Happy 105th Birthday to Mr. Frank Sinatra! is the message Trilby and Zuber have delivered – via time machine – to 1958 in Miami Beach. It was at this time in 1958 that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the early days of Grace Episcopal Church the Sunday school classes were held in the kitchen. This around the late 1940s. The church still stands! Here it is: Grace Episcopal Church 503 East Broadway Street Ocala, 34471 View Larger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard was mailed from Jacksonville in 1907 to Grace Morey on Hyde Park Avenue in Tampa from Ruth. Ruth writes that she had visited the ostrich farm and “had a fine time watching the men catch a monkey that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Dinky Line train in the Orlando rail yard around 1900. The train ran as part of the Orlando-Winter Park Railroad that started in 1889. The train ride was irregular and difficult and it wasn’t unusual for the train[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do be aware that NOAA Only tracks the eye of the storm, the one place where there really is no storm. When they mention land fall, they are only meaning the eye. Of course, the actual storm is some 100[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…