Here’s the 1928 Seaboard train station in Naples. Today the building still stand and holds the Naples Train Museum. Click here to plan a visit to the Naples Depot Museum: https://colliermuseums.com/locations/naples_depot Click here to plan a visit to the Naples[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Friday Train Stops: Hawthorne Railroad Station, 1912. The small city of Hawthorne, in eastern Alachua County once had a train stop coming north from Ocala. Hawthrone was once an up and coming city. It’s still there along[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fellows at a subdued juke joint in Glades County in 1941. That is all that is tagged in the photo that was published in an issue of ‘Tampa Bay History’ magazine in 1988. Likely the juke joint was a bit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Narcoossee was once an up and coming city. There were people living around there, businesses, This photo is from ‘Osceola County Centennial 1887-1987’ by the Centennial Book Committee. Click here or below to purchase a copy of this book. https://amzn.to/31XUWUy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Plaza Spanish Restaurant was a restaurant that was the hot spot in Sarasota. Where they all were known to gather was in the back room where The barman, ‘Flash’, is claimed to address each customer by name, having a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard of the Lakeside Inn that has is noted 1973 to Mr & Mrs. Fraun Van De Water of Millbrook, N.Y. The note is from “E.” and states that they have spent “a most delightful time in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from Tampa Bay History magazine. I hope that goat has a driver’s license! All this certainly cheaper than those car-things we drive today! This magazine is part of the Swampy’s Florida library……….#Train #Railroad #FlordiaTrain #Floridarailroad #Floridalife #FloridaLifestyle #Transportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It wasn’t until 1949 until shrimp was fished off Key West for the first time by John Salvadore. This photo was taken at the height of the shrimping season in the mid-1960s. Look at all those boats bringing tons of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why would vacationers come to Florida to get in a noisy, electronic ride when they can play shuffleboard? Here families have fun in this photo from a 1957 Florida vacation guide. This photo is from ‘Florida Vacation Guide – 1957’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the railroad depot for Sutherland. Sutherland was a shortening of the Southern Land and Development Company. Later Sutherland was renamed Palm Harbor, which still sits in northern Pinellas County beside Dunedin……….#Train #Railroad #FlordiaTrain #Floridarailroad #Floridalife #FloridaLifestyle #Transportation #FloridaTrasportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is photo of the world famous bare foot water skier, George Blair, is from before 1993 when the book with this photo on the cover came out. George got the Banana added to his moniker because of the yellow[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…