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.
Back when angled parking was the norm in Downtown St. Petersburg. The columned building in the background is City Hall and the Chamber of Commerce building. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s St Petersburg’ by Hampton Dunn. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
While traveling the state of Florida have been seeing the annual arrival of wild flowers everywhere. These purple wildflowers are the most abundant. Are these a type of phlox? This field was found in Ocala.
The newly built First Presbyterian Church of Apopka gets the finishing touches of a steeple in 1952. The church still stands today! To learn more about the church or visit soon Click here: https://www.facebook.com/FirstPresApopka/ This photo is from ‘Images of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a pineapple plantation tended to by Morris R. Johns along the St. Lucie River. Downtown Stuart now sits in it’s place. I believe the library today sits somewhere around where this plantation was. This photo is from ‘History of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Nittaw train station in 1940 that was part of the Okeechobee line of the Florida East Coast Railroad. Nittaw is a lost town in Florida. Only Nittaw Lane off US 441 still exists south of Holopaw and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Trilby decides to take a walk with Estero as one would with a catfish – in a canoe. There are so many great waterways that line and weave through our state. Get out there and canoe one today or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Clarke Drug Store that was once in Green Cove Springs. The photo is from the early 1900s. This photo is from ‘Parade of Memories – A History of Clay County, Florida’ by Arch Fredric Blakey.You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jerry Clem’s Sunshine Motors was a a well known and respected car lot in Daytona Beach. Jerry Clem died in 1968 and the dealership continues into the 1980s. Looked and can’t find when the lot actually closed. Seems Clem’s sons[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$25 was given to E.V. Sayers to purchase band uniforms for the Largo High School band he started, and the first in the area. Sayers was a former cornet player in John Philip Sousa’s marching band. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…