Here are two pages of art from the first Swampy’s Florida Storybook: Trilby’s Flower that Rob Smith, Jr. will introduce at the 2012 Pine Castle Pioneer Days festival in south Orange County February 25th and 26th. Come on out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are tickets for what appear to be rides and games along Jacksonville Beach in 1948.
Here’s a 1952 postmarked postcard of a rest area in Pensacola. It’s still there! Click here to see the east side park and here for the west side park.
Here Terisa Glover works to create a new Swampy, working from design to sewing to stuffing. What will he look like? A bit more like the cartoon version. When can you see him? The new Swampy will be revealed on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy made his way to Mt. Dora this past week… Amongst Swampy’s stops was to Julianne’s Coastal Cottage, which has all Florida based or made products. The photo above is of Swampy with a Kermit’s (from Key West) chocolate covered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy made his way into Orange County and found the Santa standing guard outside the Park Plaza Gardens on Park Avenue in Winter Park. Here’s a gigantic Christmas tree in Central Park on Park Avenue in Winter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This brochure for The Glades is from 1951. A quick look and apparently The Glades is still around, just no website. If anyone knows more about the location, please leave a comment below!
Here’s an ad for the La Frond Apartments in Indian Rocks Beach. There’s not an address on the brochure, so it’s harder to figure if the building is still there and as apartments. Please feel free to leave a comment[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a well cared for building in Clewiston, Saint Margaret Catholic Church. You have to look reeeeal close to find Swampy in this photo.
Swampy finds an early version of a barber chair at the Riverview Hotel in New Smyrna Beach. Click here to learn more and plan your own visit to the Riverview Hotel.
Here’s a matchbook from the old Florida Bank of Commerce in Clearwater from the 1970s. Today there is another set of banks with the same name but unrelated in Central Florida. New banks will often pick up names of other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a match box from Kelly’s Fish House in Naples. The restaurant opened in 1952 and is still one of thee restaurants to visit while in Collier County. Decorated with historic items, historic photos and tables made by Ben Storter,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…