It’s Grandma’s Kitchen in Miami and Orlando!
Here’s what the Orlando location looks like today:
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There’s a gas station in the place of the Miami location today:
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Swampy in Orlando Sunday morning as the Downtown Orlando Christmas star goes up. Swampy’s dear friend Jack Kazanzas got the City of Orlando to renovate and to continue to put the star up above Orange Avenue each year. Friends of Jack still gather at the corner of Orange & Central Blvd. even after his death two years ago to watch the star get installed each year. Here it is, ready for the Christmas season!
This paperback book published by the Florida Development Commission is an interesting overview of the “cultural” activities throughout the state as of 1935. Culture is a community’s accumulation of everyday activities over a period of time. This book takes on the popular notion of culture being a set criteria of theater, ballet, art museums, ballet and the like. So the view is more from the prism of what one might think culture should be than that it is already there, just not what another wants.
You can purchase a copy of ‘Culture in Florida’ by clicking here or below.
Here’s the largest load of lumber pulled from the pine forests of Lee County, near Slater, by the Dowling & Camp Lumber Company in the early 1930s.
From ‘Lee County – A Pictorial History’.
You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Swampy has been on the road for the past week and couldn’t post on Twitter. I’ll make up for it here by reposting posts from Facebook. You’ve been posted. 🙂
Above is the long running Pouncey’s Restaurant in Perry. Operating since the 1940s, the front area was added and the signage has changed a bit. There has also been a series of local families who have owned and sold it to each other. The restaurant still goes strong.
