I posted the photo above last week while in Lakeland on Facebook. It’s the new Tax Collector’s office. Promising to post more photos, i add them now below. It’s an amazing restoration of an early Publix Supermarket. Publix is based[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘ Everglades: The Story Behind the Scenery’ by Jack De Golia. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below.
Click here to plan a rip to visit the Garden Key Fort Jefferson lighthouse. This photo is from ‘ Guide to Florida Lighthouses’ by Elinor De Wire. Click here to purchase or below.
Here’s the Sparr United Methodist Church in Sparr in northern Marion County. Click here to learn more about and visit this church.
After another trip into Jacksonville, have worked the day on Swampy books. As a new set of Swampy’s Florida books go to press, I was contacted about fixing some page number issues involving ‘Florida Cracker Christmas’. While in the area[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Florida Midland Railroad depot in Ocoee, in west Orange County. The photo is from here and you can read a bit more about the depot there.
This painting of he Cape Florida lighthouse was completed using oils by Boyer Gonzales around 1900. In the foreground is a Tequesta burial mound. This image is from ‘Key Biscayne’ by Joan Blank, page 89. You can purchase a copy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tim Reynolds, and his son Daniel, deliver 1200 copies of the fresh off the press ‘Swampy’s Florida: Silver Springs State Park’ to Deb Wilson, ranger at Silver Springs State Park in Marion County, Florida. Now that the book has been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is Lou Tarcai at the wheel with his sons and nephew performing the traditional parade wave. This photo is from ‘Osceola County Centennial 1887-1987’ by the Centennial Book Committee. Click here or below to purchase a copy of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Parrot Jungle was once a wonderful place of performing birds within a botanical wonder. That, sadly, is gone now. Parrot Jungle closed years ago. A variation opened miles away on Watson Island, named Jungle Island, which was less about parrots.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the chapel that once sat within the boundaries of the Orlando Air Base. This postcard was mailed in 1943 by Private William A. Jarnox who left his address on the postcard as Rollins College, Winter Park. He mailed the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is of the Strayhorns sometime in the early half of the 1900s. The photo has no other information, but this is curious. Due to how photography was done at the time, this had to be posed. But, why?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…