This is the locomotive that hauled tons of lumber for Dowling and Sons Sawmill in Manatee County. The Dowling Mills started in 1925 and had to shut down due to The Depression in the early 1930s. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bunny has found apple fritters for National Fritter Day from the most popular spot for fritters in Winter Haven, ‘The Donut Man’. Trilby is jealous that someone knows how to make something out of apples more than he can. However,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The dog track opened in 1933 in Sulphur Springs, an area that was becoming it’s own city. As time went on the City of Tampa took over and the dog track continued. It wasn’t until the greyhound racing ban that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Tahitian Inn in Tampa first opened in 1953 and still stands on South Dale Mabry Highway. It has changed a lot since this undated postcard came out in the 1960s. Dale Mabry has only gotten louder since 1953, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I In the foreground is the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Downtown Tampa. The cars may have changed, but the buildings today are generally the same as when this photo was taken some 60+ years ago. This postcard doesn’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a large, undated postcard for Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Camp-Resort on west US 192 in Kissimmee, just south of Disney World. This was one of two in the area. The other one was about five miles away on Turkey Lake[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the first street car in Palatka. In between horse travel and car travel was a combination of both on the roads of Florida. Most cities had some form of horse drawn street cars. This photo is from ‘Florida Under[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now here’s how to get through traffic jams! This undated postcard seems to be from around 1900. Oddly, in the corner is a variation of our Florida seal with the words below it: ‘In God We Trust’. This postcard is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first image is the inside and the photo is the outside. Looks like one might have been better for the other.
Now here’s a deal! The building illustrated still exists in Winter Park on Park Avenue. This ad is from an Orlando – Winter Park Attraction Guide from 1962. The guide is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. By the way,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a 1948 postmarked postcard of the Johnson Terrace that was, at one time, in Downtown Jacksonville. Arnold Norman sent the card from Jacksonville to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Norman wrote to “Toots” that he had been swimming “in the Gulf of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All Posts Here’s the US Sugar Corp. Mill in Clewiston in 1962. The card claims this is the largest raw sugar mill in the continental United States. I believe these structures still exist there. Much of US Sugar’s structures in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…