Publicity stunt for a Saturday Evening Post Cypress Gardens story in 1963. Photo is from ‘Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland’ by Lu Vickers, page 196. Click here to purchase the book or below: https://amzn.to/3H26doZ
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Here’s Here’s Sarah and Mary Davis and Galveston, Texas, friend in Key Biscayne in late 1800s. This image is from ‘Key Biscayne’ by Joan Blank, page 89. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3kC6sNL This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida Heitman makes a catch near her father’s hotel at Punta Rassa. Her father had converted the army barracks of Fort Dulaney in the Shultz Hotel for cattlemen shipping cattle to Key West and on to Cuba. Well heeled fishermen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is looking toward Central Avenue along 5th Street North. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s St Petersburg’ by Hampton Dunn. You can purchase a copy of this wonderful photo book of Saint Petersburg pre-1975 by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/32qbWCS[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This only a portion of the full photograph of the “Louisville and Nashville Railway station.” in Pensacola in 1910 that can be seen on the incredible Shorp.com website. At the site you can actually see the fine detail of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1916 in Lutz and little Verda Fletcher finds herself in a peaceful setting of native flowers. This photo is from ‘Citrus, Sawmills. Critters, Crackers – Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County’ by Elizabeth and Susan McManus. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Downtown Wildwood in the 1950s. Source: 2008 Sumter County Historical Calendar.
Jose Huau’s cigar store in Jacksonville at the corner of Bay Street and Pine Street in the 1890s. Huau ran this store and also was an agent of Cuban Junta involving the Spanish-American War. I was at his store that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida’s first flight school opened in Miami in 1912 by aviation expert, Glenn Curtiss. This photo is from ‘Mostly Sunny Days: A Miami Herald Salute to South Florida’s Heritage’, Edited by Bob Kearney. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Historic Photos: Downtown Tampa, 1926.
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Here’s Franklin Street in Tampa in 1926. Prominent is the Tampa Theatre, which still thrives today! This photo is from The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 23, page 211. You can purchase a copy for yourself by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an odd place for a police line up…oh…wait..appears these are members of the Indian Rocks Beach Chamber of Commerce. This photo is from ‘Indian Rocks – As It Was’ by the Indian Rocks Beach Historical Society. You can purchase[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A paddle wheel steamer drifts into St. Lucie on the Indian River. This photo is from ‘History of Martin County’ by The Historical Society of Martin County. You can get a copy by clicking here or below: http://amzn.to/1redgT3 . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…