This is looking toward Central Avenue along 5th Street North. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s St Petersburg’ by Hampton Dunn. You can purchase a copy of this wonderful photo book of Saint Petersburg pre-1975 by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/32qbWCS[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Orlando Lake Cherokee postcard is from a postcard pack mailed April 1st, 1921 to Mrs. Frank Hatch, 70 West Wooster Street, Danbury, Connecticut. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . #Postcards[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This only a portion of the full photograph of the “Louisville and Nashville Railway station.” in Pensacola in 1910 that can be seen on the incredible Shorp.com website. At the site you can actually see the fine detail of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1916 in Lutz and little Verda Fletcher finds herself in a peaceful setting of native flowers. This photo is from ‘Citrus, Sawmills. Critters, Crackers – Life in Early Lutz and Central Pasco County’ by Elizabeth and Susan McManus. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a brochure for the former Howard Johnson’s that used to stand in Pompano Beach at the corner of Atlantic Blvd. and Pompano Beach Blvd. The rate card that is with the brochure is dated 1981. The building is gone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard of Chalet Suzanne, which closed in 2014, is from a couple celebrating a birthday and a honeymoon in August of 1953. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection. . . . . . . . #Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Frogs” set loose hundreds of frogs around Wewahitchka in the Panhandle. Frogs you find in the area are likely descendents of the frogs used for this film. The celebrity frog relatives are a bit difficult to get an autograph from,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Betty’s Restaurant and Lobo Lounge, 1440 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. The back of he postcard has no postal markings but does state the restaurant was “Established 1931”. it’s long gone now. Below is a view of the location today:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Downtown Wildwood in the 1950s. Source: 2008 Sumter County Historical Calendar.
Jose Huau’s cigar store in Jacksonville at the corner of Bay Street and Pine Street in the 1890s. Huau ran this store and also was an agent of Cuban Junta involving the Spanish-American War. I was at his store that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida’s first flight school opened in Miami in 1912 by aviation expert, Glenn Curtiss. This photo is from ‘Mostly Sunny Days: A Miami Herald Salute to South Florida’s Heritage’, Edited by Bob Kearney. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Franklin Street in Tampa in 1926. Prominent is the Tampa Theatre, which still thrives today! This photo is from The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 23, page 211. You can purchase a copy for yourself by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…