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…
Here’s an interesting item from Swampy’s collection of Floridiana: A plastic cow creamer. It’s believed there are other versions of this from other states. Here’s the Florida one. These were sold at roadside tourist spots all over Florida and this[…]↓ 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…
‘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…