Looking south on Orange Avenue from Washington Street. This photo is from Rollins College yearbook of 1957. Private college Rollins is in Winter Park.
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The Google folks did this, not I. Somehow it took a set of photos I took this past Saturday along Lake Mary Jane at Moss Park, south of Orlando, and strung them together to create this bit of animation. Pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the Confederate monument looking over Lake Eola in Orlando in 1963. Click here to plan a visit to Lake Eola in Orlando. This photo is from Florida – A photographic journey by Hans Hannau. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Colonial 5 & 10¢ Store, Orlando
on August 7, 2013
at 2:33 pm
Here’s one of the five and ten cents stores in Orlando fifty plus years ago. Not sure of the date of this matchbook but would guess about 1960. Please post any comments below if you have memories of going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘More Than A Memory’ by Becky Karst. You can get your own copy of this Orlando history book by clicking here or below.
Here’s a 1973 photo of the active campus of Florida Technological University (FTU). FTU in now University of Central Florida. This photo is from the 1973-73 course schedule of FTU.
It’s 1980 and, television programs, ‘M*A*S*H’ and ‘Starsky and Hutch’ are in syndication to local television stations. At the time, there weren’t fifty billion channels and this was an inexpensive way for local stations to run programming. Local Channel 6,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: The Catalina Inn, Orlando, @1970.
on March 12, 2013
at 11:37 pm
The Catalina Inn opened at 33rd Street and Interstate 4 connected to the Catalina Isles neighborhood that still sits between the hotel and Clear Lake behind it. Since it’s opening in the late 1960s the hotel has had many names.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: McClammy’s Restaurant, Orlando.
on January 9, 2013
at 2:19 am
The location of 54 N. Orange Avenue in Orlando is the current location of ‘The Social’, right next door to the Beacham Theater. This location has been a series of restaurants over the years. Not sure which year McClammy’s was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Below are the full images of the front and back of the matchbook. Above are the two sides of the front cover. To us Ronnie’s fans, there was only ‘The Big 1’ – Ronnie’s!
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Grandma’s Kitchen in Orlando & Miami.
on November 21, 2012
at 12:01 am
It’s Grandma’s Kitchen in Miami and Orlando! Here’s what the Orlando location looks like today: View Larger Map There’s a gas station in the place of the Miami location today: View Larger Map
Swampy in Orlando Sunday morning as the Downtown Orlando Christmas star goes up. Swampy’s dear friend Jack Kazanzas got the City of Orlando to renovate and to continue to put the star up above Orange Avenue each year. Friends of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…