Swampy’s Collectibles: Citrus County Brochure
on September 4, 2010
at 8:01 am
Here’s a few sides of a Citrus County Brochure. Not sure what year it’s from.
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Postcard Wednesday: Orlando – Parliament House
on September 1, 2010
at 8:01 am
News this week came that The Parliament House in Orlando is facing foreclosure. Above is a postcard for it from the 1960s, not long after it opened. The Baron of Beef restaurant was a premiere place for a steak in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a Season Guest Pass to the St. Petersburg Kennel Club from 1939. These many years later the name has changed to Derby Lane.
Here’s a postcard from the collection of what is still known as Port Tampa City. All of this developed because of the wealth of Henry B. Plant. He named the area Port Tampa City. The rail lines are also Plants[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember when the stirrer at bars were interesting? Here’s one from the old Tahitian Bar at the old Castaways resort that used to be on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. It was on a small part of an inlet there.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard from the collection from the early part of the 20th century. If we would all travel like this today in Florida… Imagine how unclogged the roads would be!
Swampy’s Collectibles: Parrot Jungle
on August 14, 2010
at 5:33 pm
Above is a banner from around 1955 of Parrot Jungle. There’s a lot of history to Parrot Jungle. Not the least of which is that it is no longer Parrot Jungle. After opening in 1936, the attraction that featured so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This card is postmarked from 1944. As much as I’ve learned of Zissen’s over the years, it was quite the watering hole in the Miami area. It claimed to have a longer bar than any other in 44 states. Celebrities[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Collectibles: Nixon in 1968
on August 7, 2010
at 4:48 am
This past Thursday marked the 42nd anniversary of Richard Nixon being nominated for President at the Republican National Convention held in Miami. Above is a bundle of items from that convention that Swampy has collected over the years. Above is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the coffee menu for the Hotel Mayflower in Jacksonville. It’s figured the menu is from around 1940. Below are some amazing prices.
Here’s one of a couple dozen brochures of St. Augustine I have. Surely it’s the most different. The cover of this 1950s brochure is below. Below that is a fold out from the cover. Below that is what folds out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The NEW Niagara Massage chairs! Today these chairs are nearly the norm and certainly lesser priced, percentage-wise, than 70 years ago. Back then it wasn’t unusual to have a furniture store along our beaches. More folks lived there in traditional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…