Here’s the Silver Springs Rodeo Parade in July 1947 as it rounds the median at Broadway Avenue and Stewart Streets. This photo is from the ‘Osceola County Centennial Book 1887-1987’ You can purchase a copy by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3ytQAmE .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was once a very popular fried chicken spot according to locals in Ocala. The Ocala Center shopping center sits in the location now. If you have any memories of ‘The Golden Drumstick’, please leave some in the comment area.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s an upper Keys brochure that doesn’t have a date, but figure it’s around 1970.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…