Remember when department store fashion ads were all drawings? This advertisement if from the February 16th 1973 edition of the Daytona Beach News-Journal….#FloridaLife #FloridaLifestyle #Business #FloridaBusiness #Iveys #Store #FloridaStore
Found this amongst the cartoons on the comics pages of the Sarasota Journal: Alvin & Bert. This used to be a common sight in the comics section a long time ago. Kept many a cartoonist busy across the U.S. These[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection…..#Church #Sunday #DaytonaBEach #FlordiaLife #Floridalifestyle
It’s 1911 at the Alger-Sullivan lumber camp number 8 and these folks take a break for a photo of them and their giant metal steeds. This photo is from Florida Memory
Here’s a photo of a train cutting the ribbon at the opening of the Fort Lauderdale train station in 1956. The photo is from the Florida State Photo Archives. . . . . #Trains #Railroad #Transportation #FloridaTravel #FloridaTransportation #Travel #USTRAvel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Friday Train Stops: in Pensacola,1906, by way of the Shorpy Photo Archive site. An extraordinary image colorized. Click here to see the full image on the Shorpy website: http://www.shorpy.com/node/10833 If you haven’t “Like”d the Shorpy Facebook page, please[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.
The back of the postcard states: “… a view of the south end of the beach showing some of the beautiful motels and hotels on the West Coast.” Now the card would feature a wall of condos and huge hotels.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A successful turkey hunter in Fernandina Beach in 1949. This photo is from Literary Florida , May 1949. . . . . . . . . #Thanksgiving #Turkey #Hunt #Hunting ##FernandinaBeach Save
This is the First Methodist Church of Lakeland as it was for a few decades. Recently massive construction is producing a whole new structure on the property. The postcard is not postmarked. Reading the history of the church on their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an advertisement from the November 10th, 1975 edition of the Palm Beach Post of First Federal of Lake Worth’s announcement of being closed the next day, Veteran’s Day. #VeteransDay #VEteran #Advertising #Advertisement #Bank #Banking #FloridaBank #Floridaveterans #LakeWorth #History #FloridaHistory