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…
It’s the Hair Design Studio in Coral Gables! This is where a “M. Josef”, as stated on the back of the postcard, is the “Master of the Art of Beauty” and will “Unmask the beauty that is yours”. Can’t beat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At the wheel of his delivery truck is B.B. Hawkins, the first distributor of Coca Cola in Fort Myers. Apparently he also sold Cherokee Ginger Ale. The child sitting beside him is his son, who took over after B.B.’s death. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a place many in Coral Gables and southern Miami learned how to swim. It is right in the midst of a residential neighborhood and has always been a highlight of Coral Gables. It is still open today and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the old entry way to the Daytona Beach Casino in this undated postcard. As you can see there was once a far more carnival atmosphere along the beach way. There’s still evidence of that if you look at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I nabbed this off the website mentioned below and don’t know when this sign came down or if someone even kept it. There were signs like this all over Florida with just the insertion of a different location into where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Howard Johnson’s restaurants are long gone, but the hotels live on! The restaurant buildings can be found all over the state. The orange and teal still on some. Here’s an advertisement from today, March 4th, 1980, that was in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Graham Creek on the lower Apalachicola River, solidly lined with tupelos.” This photo is from ‘The Watery Wilderness of Apalach, Florida’ by Betty M. Watts, 1975. You can get your own copy of this book that examines the lifestyles of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…