The gang doodles for National Doodle Day! Alva, the mouse, doodles a Lion for Lion Country Safari, West Palm Beach. Trilby doodles a steak thinking about a great steak at Tropical Acres Steakhouse, Fort Lauderdale. Zuber doodles Bok Tower Gardens,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a fold-out brochure of Ocala from 1962. Because of the size of the fold-out, it was very difficult to show here and make much sense. Below is the inside.
Below is what inside the matchbook – Below is the full matchbook –
Swampy attended an informative meeting of plans for the property that was the site of Fort King in Ocala. The location was pivotal during the Seminole Wars in the early 1800s. The plans include interpretive hiking trails and, eventually, rebuilding[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Homemade by the owner of Chelsea Coffee Company are all sorts of treats to go along with a cup of Joe. Here’s a slice of peppermint chocolate shortbread.
It’s Toys ‘R Us in Ocala at 7:30 pm Thanksgiving night. The parking lot full and people parking everywhere else. The building itself is set back almost a block back from the sidewalk full of people. Closer examination found that[…]↓ 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…
Here are two sides of a 1960 Silver Springs brochure.
Here’s a Silver Springs banner that would hang on the walls of tourists home from a visit to Silver Springs,
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the first of a new weekly feature, Postcard Wednesdays. This postcard is of the entrance to the world famous Silver Springs. There is no date on the card and would figure this to be from around 1960. I seem[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been over a month since the Marion Theater reopened in all it’s glory. It’s one of a handful of grand dames of the early theatre set in Florida to be showing first run films. The theater originally opened with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…