Here are the pencils to tomorrow’s webcomic!
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So begins the first streetcar in Coral Gables in 1925 from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’.
From Swampy’s Library: Gainesville’s Courthouse Square, 1875.
on March 17, 2012
at 12:00 pm
Here’s an 1875 photo of Gainesville’s Downtown Courthouse Square from Pictorial History of Florida. My, how things can change in 137 years. 🙂
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads – Santini’s Porpoise Training School, Marathon.
on March 13, 2012
at 3:12 pm
Here’s an advertising card of Santini’s Porpoise Training School. Indeed, ‘Flipper’ lived at this location in Marathon. It was the story of Santini and his Porpoise School that inspired movie stuntman, Ricou Browning, to compose the story of a porpoise, Flipper, who could save the day. Today Santini’s dream still exists in a slightly different form as the Dolphin Research Center. Click here for more history of Santini’s.
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: The Sea Escape Bar Menu off Port Canaveral
on March 6, 2012
at 12:47 pm
Here’s the bar menu from the Scandinavian Sea cruise ship which ran as part of the former SeaEscape one day cruises from Port Canaveral. This menu is from 1982.
