Here’s an advertising card for ‘Flipper’s Sea School’ that existed from 1972 to 1977. Prior to that the location was known as ‘Santini’s Porpoise School’ and housed one of the porpoises from the TV series ‘Flipper’. After 1977, the location[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Behind the train cars is the Seaboard Air Line Railroad’s locomotive #333 arriving in Gainesville on April 30th, 1940. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ Annual Edition, Vol.1′ You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/33jgk3W This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Lemon City train station in the late 1800s. It wasn’t long before Lemon City became a part of Miami. Lemon City these days is better known as Little Haiti by Haitians who wanted to tag their island name[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jeff Banks, from elsewhere in Facebook, reports that The Desert Inn at Yeehaw Junction is being cleared away. I know the owners were looking for ways to revive the building. Thing is, the owners were looking for ways to survive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was one of the depots found along the Orange Belt Line in the 1880s that had a Russian motive. This one was in St Petersburg. This photo is from ‘The Plant System’ by Gregg Turner and Seth Bramson. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The transition for fire fighters from horse drawn to engine moved was a rocky road. By the end of the 1800s and early 1900s fires were common throughout the cities core areas. With time being of the essence and water[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the First Presbyterian Church in Downtown Tallahassee. The church has changed much as you can see below. This postcard was mailed in 1953. Some one named Opie mailed this card to E.F. Smith in Washington, D.C. Opie writes on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the area of Port Tampa with the Henry Plant hotel in the background at the turn of the century.. This photo is from ‘Tampa the Treasure City’ by Anthony Pizzo. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the overflow from the inside of the structure to the right in Waterfront Park in St Petersburg. This is the St. PEtersburg Chess-Checker-Domino Club busy at work in the 1920s. Isn’t it interesting that we don’t see groups[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earlier saw Larry Luckey II was elected to the Glades County school board Tuesday. That got me wondering how his father, Larry Luckey Sr. is doing. A search revealed a wonderful 5 part series of the Ortona area in Glades[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s, what was once known as, the Tourist Church in Daytona Beach. It was built in 1929 and still exists today. Now the structure is home to the Seabreeze United Church of Christ. Back at the time the building was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Atlantic Coast Line railroad station in Altamonte Springs in the mid-1920s. I initially posted this 11 years ago before I was adding sources, but likely the Schofner Altamote Springs history book. . . . . . #Florida #AltamonteSprings