Alva doesn’t need a whole ear of corn, A kernel is more than enough! A great place to celebrate is at the Coney Island Drive Inn in Brooksville. Their fried corn-on-the-cob is the best Swampy’s Florida has had during our[…]↓ 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…
Who remembers Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour? The Pig’s Trough? Today re-begins posts about matchbooks from Florida. The first one being quasi-Florida. The Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours were only in select locations around the state, like Tampa, Altamonte Springs, etc. They[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The image depicts a mighty blustery day, much as we’ve experienced in our state in the past couple days. This postcard wasn’t mailed, but likely included in an package mailed. There is a note on the back from “Frank and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry Flagler donated three lots of land to have this first Methodist Church built in Miami in 1898. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Miami’ by Nixon Smiley. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3LzdaQ1 .[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The photograph was taken by Gleason Waite Romer who took photos from 1925 until the early 1950’s all over Dade County. No idea where this was taken or who created the sculpture. Though, this does appear to be taxidermy involving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s December 1925 and the economy was humming along and the Florida land boom was in full force. Dancing was very much in vogue. Here is a dance class run by Mrs. Armour on Indian Rocks Beach. According to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comedienne Phyllis Diller, who died in August 2012, spent time in Florida, including performing her comedy act at the Fontainbleau, the Eden Roc and many other locations across the state. She was also in Cape Coral in 1964 to film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard from around 1950 of the Monument of States in Kissimmee, that is still there today along the shore of Lake Tohopekaliga. Charles Pettis conjured the idea of a statue of rocks of each state as a monument[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the newsstand that sat in the basement of the Federal Building in Downtown Tampa in 1949. This photo is from ‘Tampa: A Pictorial History’ by Florida famed historian Hampton Dunn. You can purchase a copy by clicking here:[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a part of the Swampy collection that was added when it was mailed in 1977 – this J.M. Fields Super May Sale book. I received it due to the nearby J.M. Fields in Winter Park. In the early[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…