Hard to find Gold Bond shoes these days. With the typical American hardly wearing shoes anymore, the stylish shoes would unlikely sell well, anyway. At the time, Sears was in Downtown St. Petersburg. This advertisement ran in the October 5th,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Florida Advertising
One of the more popular advertising gimmicks across Florida in the 20th century was the sales place mat. Businesses might take the entire image area of the mat. More often, and most popular, was the Florida place mat with photographic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Came across this recently: A swizzle stick from the Egypt Shrine in Tampa. It used to be so easy to find an establishment that has swizzle sticks. Practically none offer swizzle sticks these days. Though, Swampy’s Florida has quite a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Jimmy Rizzo playin’ all your favorites! This ad is from the September 8th, 1967 edition of the Ocala Star-Banner. The Holiday Inn is gone, but the building still stands as a Days Inn today at U.S. 75 and State[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Ads: St. Petersburg, “The Sunshine City” brochure.
The above posed photo is very interesting if you look at it closely. I know it’s difficult to find the right pose to photograph to help sell an area and it looks like they were trying to be more creative,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Burdine family worked hard to have the newest in fashions from around the world. In 1915 air transport was slowly assembling and getting new fashion items from outside Florida was becoming even easier than the, very nearby, Florida east[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the image on the back of a deck of Eckerd Drug Stores playing cards. Stores used to have their own brands of all sorts of things. Jack Eckerd’s Drug Stores were no different. They had combs, yo-yos, pencils….and playing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sadly, not only is Cypress Gardens and this brand of juice gone, Snively Groves is gone, too. This ad is from ‘What’s Doing in Winter Haven’ give a way booklet from 1952. The booklet is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an advertisement from a small little give-a-way from 1952 named ‘What’s Doing in Winter Haven. If you have a memories of the Winter Haven Court or of Winter Haven please leave a few below! This give-a-way booklette is part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is from an ‘Orlando – Winter Park Attraction Guide’ from 1962. The location is on S. Orange Avenue around the Caruso warehouses, a few blocks south of Michigan Avenue. The publication is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…