This photo is from ‘ Pensacola: Florida’s First Place City : A Pictorial History’ by Jesse Earle Bowden, page 81. You can purchase one by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/3cRqgWV This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida library. .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Carriage Inn is one of the few lodging spots in this area of Levy County.You can plan a visit to the Carriage Inn here:https://carriage-inn-motel.com/The sign and motel are located here:16872 US-19, Cross City, 32628Their telephone number:(352) 498-3910 Have not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the fully loaded Coca Cola truck in from of the Coa Cola Bottling Co. building in St. Petersburg in 1939. This photo is from Yesterday in Florida Annual Edition: Volume 1, Issues 1-8. This book isn’t available for purchase.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo of this locomotive in Gainesville in 1881 is from ‘Tap Lines’, a historic railroad site. You can learn much more about the engine and railway line by clicking here: http://www.taplines.net/fs/fs.html . . . . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This scene has mostly changed. The lightest building to the right is still there, along with some others. Is that a shuffleboard court to the far right? There’s a building there now. This photograph is from ‘Bicentennial Pictorial History of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a fresh delivery from the tomato crops in Palm Beach County in the late 1800s. The trip from farm to boat to ship the crop always had spoilage. This photo is from ‘Black Gold and Silver Sands – A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Florida City train station and post office. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson.You can purchase one by clicking here or below.https://amzn.to/3eavWMr This book is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection………….#Florida #PolkCounty #Lakeland #Trains #Flagler#Transportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday was Swampy’s author friend Tim Hollis’ birthday and couldn’t post a photo yesterday. So, here’s a photo of Alan Rock, legendary radio host and one time Bozo for WFTV Channel 9’s Bozo Show some 40 odd years ago. With[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A fencing pose led by little Lucille Heintz in the 1940s at the Lido Casino in Sarasota. This photo is from ‘Sarasota Times Past’ by Bernice Brooks Bergen. Click here to purchase your own copy of the book or below.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Alden Hotel in 1981 built in 1936 at 2925 Indian Creek Drive, Miami Beach. The hotel had been open and operating and could be found here: aldenMiamibeach.com . Last october the hotel sold and was still open for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the train station that Lakeland founder Abraham Munn had built in Downtown Lakeland in the 1880s. This photo is from ‘The Plant System’ by Gregg Turner and Seth Bramson, page 53. You can purchase this wonderful book that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the 1880s Downtown Fort Myers was made up of only a handful of blocks of structures. Lew Stuart was one who set up shop in one of those wooden structures. It’s believed he cut Thomas Edison’s hair. This photo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…