This view from around 1967 is mostly unrecognizable from the immense concrete skyscrapers that litter the area today. This was back in the latter decades of a prosperous Downtown. Burdines was still there and many businesses were all around to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Arthur Fuller in his horse drawn wagon by his barn in Altamonte Springs in the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘A History of Altamonte Springs, Florida’ by Jerrell H. Shofner, page 89. Click here to purchase a copy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Publicity stunt for a Saturday Evening Post Cypress Gardens story in 1963. Photo is from ‘Cypress Gardens, America’s Tropical Wonderland’ by Lu Vickers, page 196. Click here to purchase the book or below: https://amzn.to/3H26doZ
Here’s Here’s Sarah and Mary Davis and Galveston, Texas, friend in Key Biscayne in late 1800s. This image is from ‘Key Biscayne’ by Joan Blank, page 89. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here: https://amzn.to/3kC6sNL This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Hotel Floridan that used to stand on the corner of Forsyth Street and Clay Street in Downtown Jacksonville. The back of the postcard advertises that the building is 100% fireproof, Beauty-rest matresses, coffee shop, cocktail lounge, beauty salon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard isn’t postmarked, but this scene is still repeated today at the Gulfarium in Fort Walton Beach. Today the place has a new name, Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park. Click here to learn more and plan a trip to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a brochure for Rainbow Springs in Marion County, before it became a state park. This brochure is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
Florida Heitman makes a catch near her father’s hotel at Punta Rassa. Her father had converted the army barracks of Fort Dulaney in the Shultz Hotel for cattlemen shipping cattle to Key West and on to Cuba. Well heeled fishermen[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…