The Venetian Causeway opens in 1926 to help folks get back and forth from Miami and Miami Beach. This photo is from ‘Miami: the Way We Were’. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below.
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Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Cruising Tampa Bay.
on September 26, 2012
at 1:39 am
Here’s a matchbook for the ‘M/V Pinella’ that would give people the opportunity to cruise and fish the bay and nearby waters.
‘Funny Folks Behind the Serious Business of Cartoons’ is the name of a fun panel of Florida cartoonists and author Tim Hollis this Saturday at the Orange County Regional History Center. Tim Hollis starts off the event at 12:30[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Robert Wilder was raised in Daytona Beach and the Florida locale inspired many novels written by him. ‘Bright Feather’ was published in 1948. Many think that Patrick Smith’s magnificent ‘A Land Remembered’ is the only one of it’s kind. Actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Tallahassee it’s the Florida Railway and Navigation Company locomotive in 1901. This is from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’ by Richard Bowe. You can purchase a copy by clicking here of below.
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Carnival Bar, Miami
on September 19, 2012
at 12:41 am
This is the matchbook for the Carnival Bar that once existed in Downtown Miami. The Bayside Office Center now sits in a good deal of the block that the Carnival once was. The address is now being used by Capricorn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To go along with the earlier post, here’s Sears at Fashion Square Mall. The first Sears in Orlando was in Downtown Orlando on Orange Avenue. It stood just to the left of where the people are walking across the street[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Lake Mirror in Lakeland, 1892. This photo is from ‘Vistorian Florida’ by Floyd & Marion Rinhart. You can purchase this book by clicking here or the link below.
Here’s a familiar site to long time Floridians! Publix, Woolworth, appliance store, etc. This photo is from Swampy’s friend Tim Hollis’s book, ‘Selling the Sunshine State’. You can buy one by clicking here or below.
Swampy’s Friend, Jennifer Huber snapped this photo today of the annual Swampy Christmas card up at the historic John H. Sams Homestead, on northern Merritt Island. Didn’t know it was up! Jennifer is with the Florida Outdoor Writer’s Association (where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Swampy with Al Kunz and Hoyalene Thomas of the Marion County Historical Commission at the Marion County Museum of History with the flyer advertising this Sunday’s entry in the lecture series: Cracker! The Cracker Culture in Florida History by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jumping for dinner at Marineland! This photo is from around 1960. This is from ‘The American Travel Series – Florida’ by Andrew Hepburn. You can purchase one of these travel guides by clicking here or below.