‘3 Body Problem’ is an 8 part series avaible through the Netflix network. The eries is an adaption of a book with the same name. Episode 8 ends in Florida and I clipped these stills from the series. The last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Swampy’s Florida Ads: What’s playing at the 40th Street Drive-In in Tampa this week in 1954.
This is an actual advertising card for Tampa’s ’40th Street Drive-In’ back in 1954. This was back when a news reel and cartoon was part of the show. Thus noted at the bottom. The theater opened in 1953. The location lasted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This theater card is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
What’s at the Joy-Lan Drive-In this week… 1951 – Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads.
Here’s a flyer from today in 1951 of what was playing at the Joy-Lan Drive-In in Dade City. This advertising piece is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Movies #DadeCity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To further celebrate Thank a Mailman Day, here’s a Florida book to read! Theodore Pratt wrote many books with Florida as a setting. With out a doubt the best of these was ‘The Barefoot Mailman’. The book chronicles a fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: What’s playing today at the Siesta Drive-In, Sarasota, 1960?
Comedienne Phyllis Diller, who died in August 2012, spent time in Florida, including performing her comedy act at the Fontainbleau, the Eden Roc and many other locations across the state. She was also in Cape Coral in 1964 to film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads: What’s at the Orlando Drive-In in 1955.
Here’s the schedule for the former Orlando Drive-In that once graced South Orange Blossom Trail outside the city or Orlando. Here is what is – or is not – at the site today: View Larger Map
Honorary Mayor, celebrated American humorist, Robert Benchley does his Mayoral duties in the early 1940s. Robert Benchley was not much for being outside New York City, but, here, he ventured out. That reaction by Benchley is real. He wasn’t much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jaws 3-D was a decidedly downturn in the series of shark scare flicks. This one was mostly filmed at Sea World south of Orlando. If you watch the film today and compare to the current Sea World, it’s hard to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Frogs” set loose hundreds of frogs around Wewahitchka in the Panhandle. Frogs you find in the area are likely descendents of the frogs used for this film. The celebrity frog relatives are a bit difficult to get an autograph from,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Creature from the Black Lagoon is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots of The Gill-Man[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…