Though Country Villa is gone, the building stood until recently in Pinellas Park. The area of the restaurant now has a 7-11 and a Dunkin Donuts shop. View Country Villa in a larger map This postcard is part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This March 1912 postmarked postcard is from, what I can best read, a H.W. Edwards and sent to a James Houghton in Lynne, Massachusetts. H.W. writes that they had spent time in Miami, heading to St. Augustine and hoping to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Atlantic Coastline depot in Sebring in 1917, the same year it opened. The station closed in the 1960s and became a storage facility. This photo is from ‘Sebring – Circle on the Circle’ by Stephen A Olausen.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from Florida Memory of an Atlantic Coast Line train by the Silver Springs depot. Docked on the other side of the depot is the ‘Hiawatha’ steamboat of the Hart Line. The date attributed to this photo is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lakeland is full of cool signs. We took this photo about 15 years ago. The ‘Eat-A-Bite’ was a local diner mostly frequented by Publix employees from the vast corporate offices all around it. It was Publix that demolished the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Hotel Soreno that majestically stood in St. Petersburg. This is the same angle as was seen in the after credits scene in the 1992 film, ‘Lethal Weapon 3’. The closing scene has the building imploding and crashing to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This undated postcard tells us there is “Steam Heat, you control it for your room”. The owners & managers of the motel, at the time, was Mr. & Mrs. Orville Bumgarner, seen in the bottom half of the postcard. Also![…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s one of two fire stations in Tavares (in Lake County): Fire Station No. 28. It used to be fire station No. 1 until about ten years ago when Tavares joined in with the rest of the county’s fire stations[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby celebrates with his typical gator-stack of pancakes, topped with a healthy, heaping pile of grits and topped with sausage links. He’s on a mild diet. So, no whipped cream and chocolate chips this time. . . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Caladiums in Lake Placid. Ladies among the caladiums in Lake Placid. What are some of your Florida native plants? Unfortunately this postcard is undated. Seems around 1960 or so. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Florida East Coast Railroad’s #113 locomotive in Bryant, in western Palm Beach County, August 1961. This photo is from ‘Speedway to Sunshine’ by Seth Bramson. One of the best books written of Florida. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby gets into the spirit by bounding out in a stylish ‘Pirates of Penzance’ outfit. A bit of Gilbert and Sullivan can brighten any day! . . . . .| . . . #OperaDay #Opera #Celebrate #Daily #Cartoon #DailyCartoon #Happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…