Swampy’s friend, Kathy Jones, took this photo of a boat parking lot along Anclote Island yesterday.
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Swampy’s friend and fellow cartoonist, Jeff Parker, shot this image of Panama City Beach tonight, August 23rd, 2013.
Great egrets in the Everglades. This from ‘Everglades: Wondrous River of Life’ by Steve Walker. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/2BWje6N
Swampy’s #Florida Postcards: Canoeing Fisheating Creek, @1970
on August 3, 2020
at 2:39 pm
This unmarked postcard shows some folks taking a canoe along Fisheating Creek in Palmdale. The postcard states that this scene is near one-time-famous Gaskin Cypree Knee Museum. The museum has been gone along time now. It was once a fascinating[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the Nemo taking passengers from the Hotel Ormond out onto the Tomoka River to see the sights in the 1900s. Apparently a couple of women wish to join the tour by walking out on a fallen tree. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Besides the opportunity to learn all about Stephen Foster and the tunes he tuned, there are all the opportunities to enjoy Florida outdoors. Above is a shot along the Suwannee River which goes along with you as you take the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Everglades Wonderland for Boys and Girls’ by Lura D. Dickson. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/3fV5KH6
Here’s a crowd at the Palms Theater in West Palm Beach in 1962 showing the epic ‘How the West was Won”. This photo is from ‘Pioneers in Paradise’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.: https://amzn.to/34Clfio
Here are the shuffleboard courts that still sit in Downtown St. Petersburg today. In the background is The Coliseum, which also still stands today. In 1923 the first of the shuffleboard courts opened and still thrive today as a new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one is from a big ol’ bunch of postcards connected in a postcard folder of Monkey Jungle images. As is the case for almost all of the postcard packs in the Swampy’s Flordia collection, this one was never mailed.
Air travel was a Very big deal in Dade County from the ’20s into the ’60s. Announcements like this were even more importnat in Dade. Especially for the business community. This advertisement is from the Miami News, July 14th, 1955.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…