Those are Northern tourists standing outside Floyd’s in Miami, 1922. The sign states-“Stop for Fruit – We Ship It any quantity.. Floyd’s was a roadside stand that appears to be a converted house. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ Annual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A great place to have gone for Prime Rib Day. A place customers could see their steaks cooked. In the late ’80s, the places turned into full buffets. Eventually the owners added a couple of other buffets, included Quincy’s Steak[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Across Lake Maitland, in Orange County around 1935, submarine cable is laid by the Winter Park Telephone Company. Notice the two men by the roll of cable. There’s one with a cigar, John Henderson, the construction manager. This is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Circus historian Larry Kellogg talks about Tampa cartoonist Art Maynor and about Circus World, the tourist attraction that was in Polk County. The video was made at the 2015 Florida Antiquarian Book Fair that is annually held the second weekend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This parrot showing off his transportation abilities during the Living Forest bird show in Cypress Gardens from the mid-1980s. The photo is from the Cypress Gardens ‘The Living Forest’ souvenir booklet. The booklet is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A photo taken of a photo hanging on the wall at Munch’s Restaurant in St. Petersburg of the 1960 a 1961 class of Lakewood Elementary School. Munch’s has been around for 70 years! If you haven’t gotten there yet, now’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A favorite fishing spot in Miami was Pier 5 in Bayfront Park in Miami. It’s no longer there but you can still drop a line nearby. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ Annual Edition, Vol.1′ You can purchase a copy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the 1920s and Gilda Grey in her swimsuit finest modeling along the boardwalk in Miami Beach. There used to be boardwalks along the southeastern coast until the power punch hurricanes came through in ’26 and ’28. Only recently have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the ‘Church of the Holy Name’, the first Catholic church in Miami. It was built on eight lots donated by Henry Flagler. This building was replaced with another church in the 1920s and no longer exists. This photo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A well dressed group of ladies from Lake City in the 1880s. This photo is from ‘A Pictorial History of Florida’. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3kU5iLa This book is part of the Swampy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Plaza Hotel along the Indian River in Brevard County, near Cocoa around 1900. This was a showplace of hotels and the greatest hotel of it’s type in the area in the late 1800s. Often compared to it’s Flagler[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s North Miami Avenue about 1900 where C. Cone’s ‘Blacksmith and Wheel Wright’ has recently opened. You can see that Mr. Cone has plenty of work to do with the wagon and wheels around the building. Also, looks like some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…