Swampy’s #Florida #Postcard #Monday: Ringling Mansion, #Sarasota, 1940s.
on August 10, 2020
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Here’s an ad that was inside of a Sarasota High School football program from October 7th, 1960.
This ad is from the April 24th,1981 edition of the Sarasota Journal. The Sarasota Journal lasted only a year more before ending it’s run in July 1982.
Sarasota, “The Playground of Florida’s West Coast”.
Swampy visited his friends as Parker Books in Downtown Sarasota. Parker Books carries an amazing amount of books. It also has a grewat supply of Florida books. Here Dan Christian has copies of Susan McManus’ ‘Citrus, Sawmills & Critters, Jeff[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Main Street in Sarasota heading out to the water in 1888. From ‘The Story of Sarasota’ recently added to the Swampy library after
Taffy’s Mens Apparel on St. Armands Circle in Sarasota celebrates 46 years in business this year. More than that it also celebrates in the same location it opened at in 1965. Quite an oddity in Florida. Learn more about Taffy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an ad that was in back of a Sarasota High School football program from October 7th, 1960.
Take me out to the ball game in Sarasota to the Spring Training site of the baseball team, the Boston Red Sox. There’s no date on the back of the card, but I would say this is from the 1940s.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…