Here is the train station in Archer, in Alachua county, in the late 1800s. The photo is from the Archer Historical Society : http://www.archerhistoricalsociety.org/ . Found this photograph on the internet with a great story attached. Unfortunately, this is still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
A view of the wonderful Starlight Room at the Belleview Biltmore in Belleair. I’d say the undated postcard is from around 1960. Unfortunately, the Belleview Biltmore is no longer with us. The Starlight Room, remodeled a few times, was still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Still some of the best 3-D ever created, View-Master had a huge variety of images to pop into it’s viewer to see 2-D images in a new light. For some who didn’t travel it was the only way to experience[…]↓ 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…
The fleet’s in in Tarpon Springs in this 1940s postcard. This is Dodecanese Boulevard that ribbons through the heart of Tarpon Springs. The road is still there but with asphalt on it. That angle the angled parking is now gone.[…]↓ 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…
Welcome to Florida! Love this undated postcard that must be from around 1960. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #Florida #Postcards #FloridaPostcards #Collectibles[…]↓ 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…