Tim was so kind to open an event Swampy was involved with yesterday at teh Orange County Regional History Museum that it seems best to profile on e of his books on book day. This is a wonderful book filled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a matchbook for the ‘M/V Pinella’ that would give people the opportunity to cruise and fish the bay and nearby waters.
Mei Yin was a Chinese-American restaurant in Miami Beach. The building still stands and is a Wings beachwear store. You can see it in the map below. View Larger Map
From the Platt Street Bridge is a view of Downtown Tampa. Below the bridge is the Hillsborough River. Practically everything in view here is gone now. There is no date on this postcard, but guesstimating from the structures that this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dick Pope, the owner of Cypress Gardens & stalwart Florida promoter, cooked up this pin & card around 1970 with the support of, then Governor, Claude Kirk, to encourage tourists to visit Florida as much as possible. Pope was under[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a Silver Springs banner that would hang on the walls of tourists home from a visit to Silver Springs,
The Old Scandia sat right in Downtown Opa-Locka right beside the moorish City Hall. The City Hall building still stands. Unfortunately the restaurant and the building is gone. Click here to read a review of the restaurant from 1950. Here’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Orlando Chamber of Commerce tacked ‘Orlando – The Action Center’ to advertising in the mid-’70s. Here’s an early brochure from that time. The top 2 of the collage of photos is of Lake Eola. The next is of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s Summer and here’s the special at the City Yacht Basin! $3.35! What a deal! (Of course, it appears this two-sided brochure is about60 years old.)
Above is the back cover of ‘Music’ magazine, Tampa Bay edition, published in May 1986. It’d be tough to pull off a radio promo like that these days. Below is the front cover with jazz artist chick Corea. In today’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the cover of a coloring book celebrating The First National Bank of Tampa, ‘The Tallest Building in Florida”. Below is the back cover. Below that are a couple inside pages. There is no date on the publication, but I’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…