This button is actually blurry. I believe it’s the plastic over it making it that way. The photo isn’t so hot either, but this was a tough photo to take.
Have to wonder who the girl is in the button. The button is about 25 years old so she might be in her late 30s now.
Here we see fun and frolic at the Patio Grill in the Hotel Roosevelt in Jacksonville. The back of the card notes that the Grill is air-conditioned and there are 3 shows each evening. Oh, and no cover charge!
There isn’t a postmark on the card but a one penny stampwith the words “Industry * Agriculture For Defense”. A fellow named Seymour sent this to Club 5, N.Y.,N.Y. Seymour also notes “They got Bunny Berigan playing here”. A quick Google search reveals that “Bunny” is Rowland Bernard “Bunny” Berigan, a jazz trumpeter who died of alcoholism in 1942. That leads me to guess this card is from the mid-1930s.
This ad is from a Sarasota visitor’s guide from 1982.
Thanks to the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry.
Here’s there original post.
Here’s an addition to the collection found this week while in San Antonio, Texas, a Florida ashtray. As usual, part of the Panhandle has been left off.