50 years ago households dreamed of such furnishings advertised for television viewing. Rather astounding how tasteful & stylish additions to the home transform into the dull flat screen panel of plastic and screen nailed to walls today. The convoluted Wall[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the first graduating class of Pensacola’s naval training station in 1915. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below: https://amzn.to/2PVo74w This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This ad appeared in the Miami News, January 16th, 1950. Notice the round trip to Key West – $6.25! For those too young to know: Greyhound stations were rather prominent in Downtown areas of cities all over Florida. Bus travel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Shrine of La Leche, St. Augustine. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services. This postcard doesn’t have a date on it. Well, that is except for the date of September 8th, 1565, which is when it is thought our country’s first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little person with a big hat stands atop this locomotive ran that between 1889 until 1895 from Jupiter to Juno. The railroad was named the Celestial Railroad. It’s name came as two other rail stops between Jupiter and Lake[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1954 film, ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’, is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actor, Burt Reynolds built this theater in Jupiter and opened in 1979. It was just north of Riviera Beach where he grew up and his father was a municipal police officer. The theater was very successful at first and Reynolds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Atlantic Coast Line train depot in Bartow in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here: https://amzn.to/4eWuopm This book is aprt of the Swampy’s Florida colelction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was the late ’50s in the U.S. Prosperity was king after the economic buildup since the end of WW II. Vacationing in Florida by plane, Delta in this case, was becoming the thing to do. The ‘Tin Can Tourist’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Seaboard Air Line train depot in Ocala in the early 1900s. In 1917 the Seaboard Air Line and the competing Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, with a depot down the road from this one, combined to create a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Vero Beach workers pick and pack tomatoes for market in 1920s. From ‘Pictorial History of Florida’ by Richard Bowe. You can buy your copy of the book by clicking here: https://swampysflorida.com/?p=4254 . . . . . . . #Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Florida East Coast Railway depot in New Smyrna Beach in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below: https://amzn.to/2PVo74w . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…