Does seem an odd advertisement from McDonald’s to give away steaks and ham for Valentine’s Day. But this is from 1961 and even the logo is different at McDonald’s. This advertisement is from the February 10th, 1961 Sarasota Journal. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jack’s Saloon on Key West was considered the fanciest on the island back in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Key West” by Stan Windhorn & Wright Langley. You can purchase a copy of the book by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a matchbook of Baker’s Skyway Club in Jacksonville. This is from sometime in the 1940’s. Notice the “Remember Pearl Harbor”. On the left is the outside of the matchbook. To the right is the inside of the matchbook.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from Floridians at Work: Yesterday and Today’ by Margaret G. Wilson, page 77. You can purchase a copy of the book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3g6a8Vy This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library.
Get your frog legs! at Sherrard’s Dixie Belle Inn, 12 miles south of Miami on U.S. 1. The back of the postcards states the inn is famous for “Southern fried chicken, barbecued spare ribs. two cocktail bars. Air conditioned. Fishermen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Al Bruchez opened Chez Bruchez with it’s French cuisine in 1956 on Seabreeze Boulevard. In it’s place today is Anna’s Trattoria Italian Cuisine. Chez Bruchez closed in the 1980s. Here’s what Chez Brunchez looks like today: This postcard is part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the first offices of the Holly Hill Grove and Fruit Company in Davenport, in Polk County. In the background, to the right, is the Holly Hill Hotel. Today Davenport has been lost to the action of the U.S.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From this past Saturday, Swampy and a stack of BIFF Burgers with their special sauce! You can plan a visit to BIFF Burger by visiting here: https://biffburger.net/ BIFF Burger address: 3939 49th St N, St. Petersburg, 33709
Here’s a postcard of the dining are of a lo0ng gone S & S Cafeteria in Winter Park. Though the card is not postmarked, I’d say this is from the late 1960s. Though the S & S Cafeterias have been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of Chalet Suzanne, which closed in 2014, is from a couple celebrating a birthday and a honeymoon in August of 1953. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . #Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Betty’s Restaurant and Lobo Lounge, 1440 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. The back of he postcard has no postal markings but does state the restaurant was “Established 1931”. it’s long gone now. Below is a view of the location today:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wolfies in Miami Beach did so well that the owner, Wilfred Cohen, decided to expand. One of those expansions was on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Best I’ve learned is that it was open from the 1960s to the early[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…