Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Wolfie’s Restaurant, Miami Beach, 1966.
Here’s a card postmarked 1966 of the world famous Wolfie’s Restaurant that once welcomed thousands in Miami Beach.
Here’s a card postmarked 1966 of the world famous Wolfie’s Restaurant that once welcomed thousands in Miami Beach.
Here is The Empire Room of the old Hotel Roosevelt in Jacksonville. This dining area was once considered one of the best in the southeast. That unfortunately ended September 1st, 1926 when a fire at the hotel became the greatest[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This advertisement has some very odd wording. Not sure what “Family Place” would have “Best Girl Friend”s to look for. There was an even odder worded ad that I can’t show here. At the time the wording for that ad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Zuber and Trilby are in their German best for German-American Day! Swampy’s best suggestion for celebrating German-American Day is a trip to Hollerbach’s Willow Tree Cafe in Sanford in Seminole County. The food is the considered by many to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a popular hangout in the 1950s, the Pensacola Dairy Company.Milk and ice cream were on the menu. This photo is from ‘Pensacola: Florida’s First Place City : A Pictorial History’ by Jesse Earle Bowden.You can purchase a copy by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pete Reynard’s Yacht Restaurant was part of a larger development described in a story from the Bradenton Herald: “According to a historical account compiled by the Manatee County Historical Society, town founder Jack Holmes built a supper club-style restaurant on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A stop at Detwiler’s farm market in Palmetto found Florida seafood! Florida seafood has become harder and harder to find in the local grocers. This is ‘Pride of the Gulf’ shrimp. There’s a currently inactive website for the company: https://oceanharvestshrimp.com/[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a recipe from ‘Pleasures of the Good Earth’ by members of the Avon Park Holiness Camp Women’s Auxillary. This one submitted by, member, Luanne Kelley. The book is from 2003. This cook book is currently not available for sale,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy scarfs a few hoagies in honor of ‘Eat a Hoagie Day’. Locations for hoagies can be spotty across the state. there are far more in southeast Florida likely due to the large amount of people originally from the northeast,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a recipe from ‘Say Grace a Collection of Recipes’ by members of the First Baptist Church, Destin. This one submitted by, member, Christina Suddarth. The book is from 1994. You can purchase your own copy of this book of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This recipe is from the 1950 copy of ‘Florida Fruits and Vegetables in the Family Menu’ by Marry Stennis for the State of Florida Department of Agriculture. You can get your own copy of this collection of recipes and much,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
! Zuber indulges in the yummy dessert at Bo’s Ice Cream in Tampa! There are so many fun historic soft serve ice cream places across Florida! Here are a few: Dreamette in Jacksonville, Del’s Freez in Melbourne, Powell’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…