Swampy’s Florida says Happy #Manatee Appreciation Day It’s Manatee Appreciation Day and here’s Crystal, the manatee, to celebrate! The best way to show your appreciation is to join Save the Manatee Club. Click here to learn more about the club[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Collier, the puppy, is ecstatic to celebrate National Puppy Day! There are puppies all over Florida looking for a home. Please visit your local Humane Society or SPCA to help a canine critter find a home. Feel free to mention[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of the old Municipal Swimming Pool in Lakeland. The postcard wasn’t mailed, though I’d guess this postcard is from around 1950. Don’t know much about this pool except that this pool isn’t the official pool anymore. The City[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Webb City, in St. Petersburg, where one could buy children’s clothes, get a heaircut, a hamburger and watch chickens dance. Yep! There was a chocken dancing area among a whole bunch all inside a block size building in Downtown St.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is postmarked October 1918 and the sender writes that he is glad to be leaving the area in the southern part of Jacksonville. The Ortega Bridge is still around but looks quite different today. The wooden bridge has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard of DeLeon Springs. This is from an unmailed postcards, but appears to be from the 1950s. The structures shown haven’t changed much. Do you have memories of time spent at DeLeon Springs – now- State Park? Click[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Hyde Park in Tampa in 1913. Notice the street cars that used to roam all around Tampa. I believe I know where this photo was taken from and most of these homes are now gone. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It the Citrus Tower in Clermont! Now the view is of a sea of roofs but the tower is still there, plus the gift shop and the Hall of Presidents. It’s been more recently further updated with much more to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Besides golf and tennis, there was once access to horses at the Biltmore in Coral Gables. This photo was taken back when equine sports were more popular than swinging sticks at little balls. Ah! – But this is a polo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo from 1938 in Plant City, Florida, shows, what Florida Memory notes: “This was the arrival of the first diesel powered passenger train in the southeast.” The photograph is from Florida Memory here: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/33349…#Train #FloridaTrain #Railroad #FloridaRailroad #Travel #FloridaTravel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To act properly on International Women’s Day for Penney, the chicken, Trilby runs all over the forest looking for a door to hold open for her. Tomorrow: Celebrating a real doll! . . . . . . #InternationalWomensDay #WomensDay #Womens[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stars Hall of Fame wax museum featured about 200 figures from Fred Astaire to Roy Clark to Henry Winkler as ‘the Fonz’. Folks could get a photo with Frankenstein. There were also opportunities to meet major celebrities who would cast[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…