Swampy’s Postcards: Pier #5, Miami City Yacht Basin.
on October 23, 2014
at 6:26 am
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Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: Fishing Pier, Fort Myers Beach, 1962.
on October 2, 2014
at 3:21 am
Here’s a fishing pier along Fort Myers Beach. I believe it’s still there and that I’ve walked on it. Please let me know if it still is or not. This one area of the state I get to least. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Postcard Monday: The Cypress Gardens Florida Pool
on September 15, 2014
at 1:28 am
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’s Postcard Monday: Sidewalk Art Festival in Winter Park.
on May 19, 2014
at 3:13 am
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: Parrot Fun at Weeki Wachee!
on May 15, 2014
at 4:30 am
Sadly, the parrot shows are long gone from the, now named, Weeki Wachee State park. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. #WeekiWachee #Birds #Aviary #FloridaFun #FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #FloridaAttractions #Florida #FloridaPostcards #Postcards #History #FloridaHistory
Swampy’s Postcard Monday: Hotel Seminole, Jacksonville.
on May 12, 2014
at 3:58 pm
This is actually a blotter in the Swampy collection. I’ve also seen it as a postcard and the blotter is the exact size of a postcard. It advertises the J.B. Pounds Hotels. The Hotel Seminole in Jacksonville was a part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Sunday Services: St. Anne’s Shrine, Lake Wales.
on March 9, 2014
at 1:54 am
St. Ann’s Shrine was built by French-speaking Catholics in 1923 east of Lake Wales along the shore of Lake St. Anne. The Diocese of St. Augustine de-sanctified the shrine. Remnants of the shrine still exist in the area.
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard: Monkeying Around Monkey Jungle.
on March 6, 2014
at 2:02 am
Monkey Jungle has always been as much fun as a barrel of monkeys! As shown in this postcard from around 1970. Sadly, Monkey Jungle is still closed to visitors. Hopefully, it will open again soon for the fun of all![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Sunday Services: Baptist Church, Orlando, 1910.
on February 2, 2014
at 2:31 am
This postcard was mailed February 28th, 1910 from Orlando to Mr. Harold Cady in Bellows Falls in Vermont.
Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: Gasparilla Parade, Tampa.
on January 30, 2014
at 1:14 am
Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: The Venetian Room, Sheraton Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, 1968.
on January 16, 2014
at 1:57 am
This postcard of The Venetian in the Sheraton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale was mailed 45 years ago today. Charlotte mailed it from Fort Lauderdale to Louise Stoddard in Chatham, New Jersey.
I like to start each year reading a Mike Shayne novel. The stories are hard to solve and uses real locations around Miami and Miami Beach at the time the stories are written. The books are now nearly impossible to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…