This is the Nittaw train station in 1940 that was part of the Okeechobee line of the Florida East Coast Railroad. Nittaw is a lost town in Florida. Only Nittaw Lane off US 441 still exists south of Holopaw and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$25 was given to E.V. Sayers to purchase band uniforms for the Largo High School band he started, and the first in the area. Sayers was a former cornet player in John Philip Sousa’s marching band. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Hooper Groves citrus stand in Brevard County in the 1950s. These stands used to be all over Florida. There are few left today. Hard to believe folks would pass up a spot like this to buy oranges at a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This 1888 photograph of the Indian River shore shows the coquina rock that lies beneath to many of us. This photo is from ‘Victorian Florida: America’s Last Frontier’ by Floyd and Marion Rinhart. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looks like The Creature is either at Silver Springs or Wakulla Springs striking a pose of another dweller of Florida, The Great One, Jackie Gleason who would soon make his mark “Live from Miami Beach!…” This photo popped up in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a standard scene all over Florida prior to 1948 when new Governor Fuller Warren went about getting fences up to corral the cattle. This scene is along what would become Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Travelers and their dog make their way from St. Louis to Lake Worth in 1912. From ‘Lake Worth – Jewel of the Gold Coast’.You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/35oHpoy
Bill Sparks found that tying a 500 pound jewfish to the front of his car, adding cow horns and painting spots on the fish garnered a ton of public attention to his tackle store in Punta Gorda in 1937. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an early unmarked postcard of Winter Park Mall. The fountain seen sat as you see it here until a marble ring was built around it around 1980 or so. Winter Park Mall was demolished about seventeen years ago to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the Hair Design Studio in Coral Gables! This is where a “M. Josef”, as stated on the back of the postcard, is the “Master of the Art of Beauty” and will “Unmask the beauty that is yours”. Can’t beat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the wheel of his delivery truck is B.B. Hawkins, the first distributor of Coca Cola in Fort Myers. Apparently he also sold Cherokee Ginger Ale. The child sitting beside him is his son, who took over after B.B.’s death. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a place many in Coral Gables and southern Miami learned how to swim. It is right in the midst of a residential neighborhood and has always been a highlight of Coral Gables. It is still open today and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…