Here’s Hooper Groves citrus stand in Brevard County in the 1950s. These stands used to be all over Florida. There are few left today. Hard to believe folks would pass up a spot like this to buy oranges at a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Bright Spot service station in Punta Gorda. The front wall of the building was assembled locally by the Punta Gorda Cement Products company using a concoction of palm roots and a secret binder. This photo is from ‘Our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This 1888 photograph of the Indian River shore shows the coquina rock that lies beneath to many of us. This photo is from ‘Victorian Florida: America’s Last Frontier’ by Floyd and Marion Rinhart. You can purchase a copy by clicking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Looks like The Creature is either at Silver Springs or Wakulla Springs striking a pose of another dweller of Florida, The Great One, Jackie Gleason who would soon make his mark “Live from Miami Beach!…” This photo popped up in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a standard scene all over Florida prior to 1948 when new Governor Fuller Warren went about getting fences up to corral the cattle. This scene is along what would become Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the 1930s and bananas are being loaded for a trans-shipment. This photo is from ‘Florida – A Guide to the Southernmost State’. If you would like to purchase a copy of this book, click here or below. https://amzn.to/2Wn905z
Travelers and their dog make their way from St. Louis to Lake Worth in 1912. From ‘Lake Worth – Jewel of the Gold Coast’.You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/35oHpoy
This is Miami Beach. To the left is the Algiers Hotel that st Between 25th and 26th street on Collins Avenue. The Algiers facade was designed, as many structures were in Miami Beach, by Morris Lapidus. The architect of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bill Sparks found that tying a 500 pound jewfish to the front of his car, adding cow horns and painting spots on the fish garnered a ton of public attention to his tackle store in Punta Gorda in 1937. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an early unmarked postcard of Winter Park Mall. The fountain seen sat as you see it here until a marble ring was built around it around 1980 or so. Winter Park Mall was demolished about seventeen years ago to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$15 for a lot! and they “Invite Investigation”! “Hamilton Heights is only 11 days old and over 600 lots have been sold. This is positive proof that it is an exceptional buy.” How easily people with money were conned into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jackie Gleason and his new home in Miami Beach in 1964: the Miami Civic Auditorium, later renamed The Jackie Gleason Theater. From ‘How Sweet It Is – The Jackie Gleason Story’ by James Bacon. Click here if you would like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…