Here’s a pilot training at the Melbourne Naval Air Station during it’s existence between 1942 and 1946. This photo is from ‘The History of Brevard County – Volume 2’ by Jerrell Shofner. You can purchase a copy by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a matchbook from Bradenton. The Palmetto address is now a parking lot. The Bradenton address is now a title company. Here’s the inside of the matchbook.
Here’s a banking bag of Fruit Industries in Bradenton. Fruit Industries was started by Anthony Rossi and was the precursor of Tropicana, now owned by Pepsico, Inc.
Here’s teh still surviving El Rancho Hotel Court, now more referred to as a motel. I seem to recall the sign being around in the early ’80s. Don’t know when the sign came down, but would guess it was during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The legendary creator of the Toff mysteries, John Creasey, wrote a series of 6 novels under the pseudonym Robert Caine Frazer. The series appeared from 1959 to 1962 and is about British private investigator Mark Kilby who mostly worked for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lindy’s Sundries matchbook. The address doesn’t seem to exist anymore, so I couldn’t find what is in the place of Lindy’s today.
Here’s a two sided mailer for La Cafe De Paris in Fort Lauderdale from the 1960s. The restaurant opened 50 years ago and is now one of the oldest French restaurants in Florida. Here’s what the building looks like today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the long running and very well known B&B Fisheries in Daytona Beach. It had been opened more than 50 years and recently closed. Besides purchasing fish, it was also a restaurant known to serve the freshest fish. It was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a part of the artwork I’m drawing for the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Lake Wales’ coloring and guide book.
It’s another Coca-Cola distributor in Winter Haven. This photo is from ‘The History of Winter Haven’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Swampy and Rob Smith, Jr. were part of a panel discussion put together by Rob for the opening of a Peanuts exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center. Below are a few photos taken at the event. More to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is Brevard Avenue in Downtown Cocoa in the 1920s. This photo is from ‘History of Brevard County’ by Jerrell Shofner.