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 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…
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…
Here’s a unmarked postcard of the Marina Mar in Sarasota. The Marina Mar opened February 1st, 1965 and eventually became Marina Jacks. Mar means ‘Sea’ in the Spanish language. Marina Jack’s has added on beyond the marina with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This car is making it’s way, 1920s style, along a dirt road to Panama City. This photo is from ‘A Pictorial History of Florida’.You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below.:https://amzn.to/2K2eM8R……..#Florida #Transportation #Roads #FloridaTransportation #Floridaliving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is postmarked January 18th, 1919 from Orlando to somewhere in Ohio. The mailer wrote a long message in the back that is very hard to read or understand. The addressee information is just as hard to understand and,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby tries to explain how books mysteriously disappeared from Swampy’s library yesterday. During his story a potato plant turns into a dragon and a snack-munching baby alligator becomes a fearless defender of bookshelves. Tomorrow: Celebrate a berry! . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…