Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads: A Guide to the Florida Upper Keys – Part 1.
on June 27, 2022
at 6:00 am
It’s an upper Keys brochure that doesn’t have a date, but figure it’s around 1970.
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Here are folks fishing for catfish along Taylor Creek, named for Florida Governor Zachary Taylor, that connects to Lake Okeechobee. This area later became a fish camp. This photo is from ‘Okeechobee Catfishing’ by Lawrence E. Will. You can purchase[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Three States steamboat on the Suwanee River in Branford in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Florida’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3yhkonO . . . .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s friend, Gloria Neiger Bushong posted her celebrating 60 years today since graduating Coral Gables Senior High School. Well, so happens Swampy’s Rob Smith’s mother graduated 2 years earlier. Digging into Rob’s yearbooks, here is a photo of the school[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Silver Cornet Band run by Professor Ned Wyer. This band play at all kinds of local events around Pensacola in the late 1800s. This photo is from ‘Pensacola – The Deep Water City’, page 78. You can purchase[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: The Great Masterpiece, Polk County
on June 19, 2022
at 6:00 am
I was speaking to a lady from New York (who is very proud of that location) at an event in Maitland this past weekend and we started speaking about old Florida. The very first location she started talking about were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Sebring workers pick and pack tomatoes for market in 1922. From ‘Pictorial History of Florida’ by Richard Bowe. You can buy your copy of the book by clicking here: https://swampysflorida.com/?p=4254 . . . . . . . #Florida #EatYourVegetables[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcards: Weeki Wachee & Alice in Waterland, 1960s.
on June 16, 2022
at 6:00 am
Weeki Wachee produced an underwater ‘Alice in Waterland’ in the mid-1960s. 25 mermaids got their underwater Broadway musical debut! The tough part was creating the costumes to be underwater and to work with air tanks and the breathing hoses. Tweedledum[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Matchbook Wednesday: Sea Turtle Inn, Atlantic Beach.
on June 15, 2022
at 6:00 am
Here’s a matchbook for the former Sea Turtle Inn that sat in Atlantic Beach. The building was demolished over ten years. Just after another hotel was built with the pretentious name of One Ocean Resort. Click here to know more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Tuesday Ads: Gulfview Motor Co., Fort Walton Beach, 1955.
on June 14, 2022
at 6:21 am
Here’s an advertisement of the Gulfview Motor Company in Fort Walton Beach in 1955. This was originally posted in the ‘Fort Walton Beach: What We Did’ Facebook page by Gareth Stearns.: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203432763720071&set=gm.10151948584742032&type=1&theater . . . . . . . #Tuesday[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photograph by the Burgert Brothers shows Franklin Street looking north with the Hillsborough County Courthouse to the right. The court house was built in 1892 for $60,000. . . . . . . . . #Florida #Tampa #FloridaHistory #History[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a favorite spot for tourists in Fort Lauderdale for many years. It eventually closed in the early 1990s. The property has been redeveloped to include a condominium and the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Feel free below to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…