Here’s a postcard to go along with the Swampy comic strip yesterday. This is what just north of the Sanford Riverwalk area once looked in this 1905 postmarked card. Yes, that’s the bridge in the back that would take you to Enterprise. Click here to see photos of the Sanford Riverwalk area as it looks now.
This brochure is from Jacksonville and offers tour service in Duval County, St. Augustine and Dade County. This does have another 6 pages explaining the tours with more photos. There is no date, but based on the cars would have to guess the early 1930s. Something else not mentioned throughout the booklet are prices for the tours. I guess a call to 734 would provide the answer.
The Orlando Air Base eventually became the Orlando Naval Training Center in 1968. It later was shuttered and sold to developers to become a complex named Baldwin Park.
A footnote here: Swampy’s handler, Rob, was born on the base when it was still the Air Force Base.
The San Carlos Hotel (also know as ‘The Gray Lady of Palafox’, in that the structure sat on Palafox Street) opened in 1910 and thrived for many decades. As with many multi-story hotels of the later 1800s & early 1900s across Florida, the advent of the roadside motel took it’s toll on occupancy. The hotel struggled as a low rent place for residences to it’s end in 1982. The building was demolished in 1993. It is now the site of a U.S. Courthouse.
The Turtle Club existed for many years in the same location as a multi-function club. Dance club, bar, pool, etc. Kind of like a Chuck E. Cheese for adults. Things went downhill as various police agencies found themselves camped out at the facility. Eventually the place closed. A fire gutted the building and it was torn down about 7 years ago.
This matchbook is probably from the late 1980s.
(Sorry about the scan. Still working on issues with new equipment.)