Swampy's Florida

Here’s one of two dinosaurs along US 19 near Weeki Wachee. I’ll post about the 2nd dinosaur in the future. This dinosaur is Harold’s Auto Center in this 1987  photo and it still is today. The structure opened in 1964 as a Sinclair gas station .  This view is from back when you could fill up your tank – and for a lot less, too! Now the pumps are gone and the focus is car repair. Very obviously a popular one by when I last saw it and if you zoom into the map below. I was hoping to add a Swampy shot from a few moths ago I took, but I couldn’t find it at the moment.

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The photo is from ‘Florida’s Vanishing Architecture’ by Beth Lunlop from 1987.
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