This is from the April 1st, 1976, edition of the Bradford County Telegraph. Free balloons gets me every time! . . . . . . #Florida #Starke #Appliances #Advertising
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Swampy’s Florida Ads from Today, 1965: New England Oyster House, Miami News.
on March 26, 2024
at 5:56 am
Who remembers the New England Oyster House in Dade County? I remember the nets hanging as decoration around the New England Oyster House near Downtown Miami and how i had to watch where I was walking not to get caught[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Webb City, in St. Petersburg, where one could buy children’s clothes, get a heaircut, a hamburger and watch chickens dance. Yep! There was a chocken dancing area among a whole bunch all inside a block size building in Downtown St.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads: The Citrus Tower, Clermont
on March 12, 2024
at 6:00 am
It the Citrus Tower in Clermont! Now the view is of a sea of roofs but the tower is still there, plus the gift shop and the Hall of Presidents. It’s been more recently further updated with much more to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Add $20 for the little trees these days. Just a few decades ago, folks used to grow their own citrus. It’s a lot of work, but the rewards of fresh fruit and juice made the efforts more than worth the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finally! The Truth is revealed at Kennedy’s in Ocala….though, the true prices are hard to find today! Kennedy’s was a long time store in Downtown Ocala and, later, as Kennedy’s Oxford Shop in Ocala Shopping Center a mile from Downtown.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s what the Tramor Cafeteria was advertising February 13th, 1939 in the St. Petersburg Times. The prices are surreal to what we know today. Yet the food was likely better and better for you. Today telling your Valentine that you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As Social Media takes over the retail store market, these ‘After-Christmas’ sales are vanishing. Maas Brothers sure has. This Tampa-native store was victim of consolidation as Burdines, of Miami, swallowed it and then New York’s Macy’s swallowed Burdines. This advertisement[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lots no longer with us since this advertisement for a special pull-out section of the Miami News. First gone is the Miami News. The News, a little over a year later, in 1966, started merging with the Miami Herald and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when all a child wanted for Christmas was a train? This advertisement is from the December 7th, 2016th edition of the Ocala Star-Banner. . . . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Sears #Train #Christmas #ADvertising[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: A shoe glove from the Landmark Motor Lodge in Winter Haven, @1950.
on December 5, 2023
at 6:00 am
Here’s a shoe glove to clean your shoes given away while staying at The Landmark Motor Lodge in Winter Haven. Not sure which corner the motel was at on US 17 & County road 544. However there is not a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Greiner’s, in Ocala, was only 3 years old when they placed this advertisement in the Ocala Star-Banner in 1965. Gifts for Christmas from Greiner’s in Ocala can still be had today! – https://www.facebook.com/greinersclothing/ Please support our Florida local businesses! .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…