Back when Palm Bay was known as Tillman, Benedictine Father Gabriel Ruppert had his parishoners build the church above in 1914. It’s built of cypress with a tin roof. It still stands today and can be found at 1425 Miller[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from ‘Florida’ by Bern Keating.You can get your copy of this 1972 photo journal of Florida by clicking here or below.
This postcard was mailed February 28th, 1910 from Orlando to Mr. Harold Cady in Bellows Falls in Vermont.
Looks like a different kind of stret repair than we se these days. Instead of dozens of miles of road construction this block of repair of the street car line along Main Street in Downtown Jacksonville in the 1880s. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the All Saints Episcopal Church in the heart of Downtown Lakeland. The postcard wasn’t mailed, so it’s uncertain what year this photo was taken. Click here to go to the church’s website and learn more about it. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This postcard of The Venetian in the Sheraton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale was mailed 45 years ago today. Charlotte mailed it from Fort Lauderdale to Louise Stoddard in Chatham, New Jersey.
Swampy’s friend, Mike Clark introduced his child, Connell,to the delights of a Publix cookie today. All of us in Florida have had that first cookie. What do you remember of your or your child’s first cookie?
Here’s a preview of the Swampy’s Florida cartoon coming out tomorrow. The subject has something to do with the name of a well-known location in our state and a wolf. Want to guess where it is?
I like to start each year reading a Mike Shayne novel. The stories are hard to solve and uses real locations around Miami and Miami Beach at the time the stories are written. The books are now nearly impossible to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…