This car is postmarked 101 years ago today from Miami. It was sent by B.P.F. to Clara Keene at Bird-in-Hand Lane in Pennsylvania. No city given. It’s a Thank You card for a Christmas card received and that they are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Cypress Gardens! This is one of my favorite postcards of the vast Cypress Gardens collection I have. This one is postmarked 1973.
It’s Grandma’s Kitchen in Miami and Orlando! Here’s what the Orlando location looks like today: View Larger Map There’s a gas station in the place of the Miami location today: View Larger Map
Here’s the Red Cross Pharmacy that once stood in Downtown Miami. It’s gone now, but had a long history. Over the years the business changed hand eventually ending up with Florida drug store magnate, Jack Eckerd. Before Eckerd bought the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a banking bag of Fruit Industries in Bradenton. Fruit Industries was started by Anthony Rossi and was the precursor of Tropicana, now owned by Pepsico, Inc.
Here’s teh still surviving El Rancho Hotel Court, now more referred to as a motel. I seem to recall the sign being around in the early ’80s. Don’t know when the sign came down, but would guess it was during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lindy’s Sundries matchbook. The address doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so I couldn’t find what is in the place of Lindy’s today.
Here’s The Gifford Arms in Orlando in the 1950s. Over time the name changed to The Howard Vernon Motor Lodge and has that name today. A map below shows how the hotels look today. View Larger Map
Here’s a two sided mailer for La Cafe De Paris in Fort Lauderdale from the 1960s. The restaurant opened 50 years ago and is now one of the oldest French restaurants in Florida. Here’s what the building looks like today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A matchbook from the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach.