Anyone taking a bus this morning?
This is a photo of the bus taking folks to the Qui-Si-Sana Hotel in Green Cove Springs in the early 1900s.
The photo is from ‘Parade of Memories – A History of Clay County, Florida’ by Arch Blakey.
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Swampy’s Florida Facebook friend, Johnny Phillips, asked about Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa. I just had a photo of it I was going to post and now can’t find it. I still wanted to honor his request, so I went to a source rarely used when putting these posts together – The internet. Found some terrific photos. Those are above.
The convention center was opened in 1965 and named after Tampa Mayor Curtis Hixon, who served from 1943 until his death in office in 1956. It was determined by those interested in redeveloping Downtown Tampa that the venue was outdated and the wrecking ball was put to it in 1993.
Here are two wonderful photos taken yesterday by Kelly Shannon Kelly while at Homosassa Springs.
Spotted these on Facebook that Kelly posted and wanted to share them. It just so happened that a Homosassa Springs postcard was scheduled for today, too!
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The Alamanda Motel in Sarasota has one of the last neon signs along that part of US 41. At one time motels lined US 41, most all with neon letters, musical signs, flamingos, etc. This is the last motel with a shuffleboard court in the area. Though the neon signs are gone there are still a dozen or so locally owned motels along the Tamiami Trail (US 41) north of Sarasota. They and the Alamanda Motel sit rather quietly these days as the thundering traffic speeds by and folks turn into chain after chain of lodging.
Swampy visited his friends as Parker Books in Downtown Sarasota. Parker Books carries an amazing amount of books. It also has a grewat supply of Florida books. Here Dan Christian has copies of Susan McManus’ ‘Citrus, Sawmills & Critters, Jeff LaHurd’s new John Hamilton Gillesepie and, arguably the best fiction ever written about Florida, ‘A Land Remembered’ by Patrick Smith. They also carry Swampy’s ‘Swampy’s Florida: Sarasota’.