Here’s an advertising card of Santini’s Porpoise Training School. Indeed, ‘Flipper’ lived at this location in Marathon. It was the story of Santini and his Porpoise School that inspired movie stuntman, Ricou Browning, to compose the story[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard of the Florida pool built by Dick Pope at his Cypress Gardens to entice films to be produced at the Winter Have site. He specifically was looking to lasso swimming champ and film star, Esther Williams, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy got a tour of the historic Polk Theater in Lakeland. Here’s their cool sign! Click here to read the history of the theater. I’d repeat it here, but I hope you’ll visit their website and consider making a trip[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been over a month since the Marion Theater reopened in all it’s glory. It’s one of a handful of grand dames of the early theatre set in Florida to be showing first run films. The theater originally opened with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Funshine State