Swampy found himself in Downtown Orlando very early this morning. Here’s the former Cheyenne saloon at about 3 am this January 31st, 2011.
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Swampy’s Collectibles: A Lake Alfred Esco’s menu.
on January 29, 2011
at 12:30 pm
This is only 4″ tall and folds in the middle. I think I know where this building is in Lake Alfred. I believe it’s under the flyover of U.S. 27. Please feel free to add any information or memories of the station.
This is from an Orlando – Winter Park Attraction Guide from 1962. The location is on S. Orange Avenue around the Caruso warehouses, a few blocks south of Michigan Avenue.
I have so many publications with ads in them, that I thought I would post a few. There are so many that are cute, odd, interesting, etc. I’ll try to vary the locations as best as I can.
A sight to see! Tourists would go to watch the penned sea turtles, called “turtle crawls” or “kraals”, as they swim and bob about. This postcard doesn’t have a date, but I would say the 1940s.
The sea turtles were brought in from the Caribbean and South America to the only sea turtle cannery in the U.S. in Key West to be made into soups. The Thompson Fish House thrived until the sea turtle population had been reduced to a point that the Thompson Fish House, along with other canneries in the Western Hemisphere, couldn’t keep up with the demand. Eventually the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1973, which made gave federal protection to many animals, including the sea turtle. The Act permanently ended any commercial sea turtle farming.
In 1994 the Thompson Fish House was was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Swampy attended the 2011 Brooksville Raid Civil War Re-Enactment last weekend. The re-enactment is not of an actual battle at the site, but encapsulating the history of the war and what many went through during it.
Here Swampy meets one of the re-enactors.
