Archive for Swampy’s Florida News
A1957 Lockheed Constellation at Fantasy of Flight.
Swampy’s #Florida Live: with the crew at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage during the Mount Dora’s Arts and Crafts Festival!
Swampy Live: at the 60th reunion of the high schools of Edgewater and Boone classes of 1953. Here Edgewater Eagle Jim Simmons and Boone Brave Grace Chewning continue the rivalry of the schools and get ready to duke it out.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Driftwood Restaurant in Williston.
As Swampy leaves Escambia County, we also leave behind the unsettled skies of Pensacola right now.
This is Ruth Mathies, the Tri-City Queen, posing with one of the tiki guardians at Tiki Gardens in Pinellas County in 1962. Tiki Gardens closed in 1988, but if you look real close to can still find remnants of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy Live: at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville.
Swampy visited the Dunnellon Chamber of Commerce this morning. Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. and the Chamber discussed tourism ideas and how folks can better know Dunnellon as a tourism destination. Talked about the upcoming Swampy’s Florida: Dunnellon and the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just had a lot of fun on Twitter commenting about locations & history as ‘Flipper’s New Adventure’ (1964) on TCM played. Have to do that again sometime. Here’s the IMDb page for the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058105/ By the way, you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tomorrow is the last day of The General Store in Lakeland. Terisa Glover, above, and her little dog, Sparky, have run The General Store for the past six plus years. During that time The General Store became the heart of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Soon to visit the bumper of your car – It’s the Lovebugs! Live and in concert amongst the goldenrod in Ocala! this small field of goldenrod is loaded with flying creatures from the lovebugs to wasps, bees and butterflies. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…