The Old Scandia sat right in Downtown Opa-Locka right beside the moorish City Hall. The City Hall building still stands. Unfortunately the restaurant and the building is gone. Click here to read a review of the restaurant from 1950.
Here’s one of the restaurant’s brochures from the 1950s.
From ‘The Golden Coast’ by Harnett Kane.
The Florida History text book is available now for homeschool teachers or, as I’ve been told, for anyone who’d like to read a short version of Florida’s history! Just $6 each and includes questions, projects and even my phone number if I can answer questions or give guidance. Right now there is a mailing charge and soon there will be an online site to order from otherwise. It will be available in select stores in the near future.
We introduced them at The Knowledge Exchange last Saturday. Next stop is in Lakeland at The General Store where Swampy and Rob Smith, Jr. will have copies of Swampy’s Florida; Florida History and the rest of the coloring & guide books to sign (and doodle in).
If you’d like one, send Rob a message : swampy@swampysflorida.com . There will soon be an online order form for all the books and prints in the Swampy’s Florida corral.
Who remembers what these were for? Many of us old enough collected many, many of these and stuck them in a stamp book. Then we went to a store and traded them for toasters and lamps. Publix had the Green Stamps and Winn/Dixie had Top Value Stamps. I’ll have to post more about these down the road.
Please feel free to leave your memories of trading Green Stamps.
Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. is giving two talks at The Knowledge Exchange in Melbourne on Saturday, July 28th, from 10am into the afternoon. Rob will also be signing (and doodling) in his coloring books there. Rob will also be introducing his brand new Florida History book. The book is geared toward home schools from the 4th grade and earlier. The Florida History covers all of Florida’s history from the Calusa to present. There are many areas covered that are not covered in other Florida books. It’s also been priced to make it very easy on the home school pocketbook.
The first talk on Saturday is about cartooning and the second about Florida history. Rob will be cartooning quite a bit during the talks.
Come on out and see Swampy and Rob at The Knowledge Exchange in Melbourne on Saturday!