Here’s an postmarked postcard that is labeled on the back: ‘View from wharf with skyline of Tampa, Florida in the background’. There is a photo credit: Paul Hogan.
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This Weeki Wachee postcard postmarked 1966 is of Weeki Wachee without the mermaids! The famous underwater theater is the white structure in the background to the left. The beach area where the ladies are sitting is now Buccaneer Bay.
Here’s a postcard from around 1950 of the Monument of States in Kissimmee. This 50′ high statue was assembled in 1943 of contributions of various geological items from all 48 states at the time. Since then all 50 added to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s this week’s movie schedule in 1954 for The Starlite Open Air Theatre in Key Largo! ‘Easy to Love’ was almost entirely filmed in Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven.
This postcard is dated from 1955. The message on the back to someone in Largo, Florida, is about the misadventures of a couple and their car that keeps breaking down in Perry, Tallahassee, etc.
Of Swampy’s books are the books of Randy Wayne White, who is considered by many the Dean of Florida writers. Randy Wayne did not start professionally as Randy Wayne White, his real name. His first published books were under the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a card from about a hundred years ago featuring Southern Pinellas County.
Here’s a brochure from Swampy’s collection for touring the Everglades. There is no date on the brochure, but appears to be from the early ’50s. The price is right, but Gray Line no longer offers this trip. Orlando and Miami[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard, labeled ‘The Bathing Beach’, that was mailed in 1958. The message in the back is very hard to read. Something about a trip for a part of the family and that there are “just 3 of us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Above is part of Swampy’s Florida record album collection, Glenn W. Turner’s “You Can Better Your Best”. Glenn W. Turner based his motivational speaking, ‘Dare to be Great’, & product business in Florida as it and he became huge celebrities[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Where, oh where might this be in our great state of Florida?
Here’s an interesting noise maker from the Florida collection. It’s from a place called the Belmont Club in Miami Beach. Apparently Noel Sherman put on the shows and managed to get his name at the top of wooden paddle above[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…