Here is the Confederate monument looking over Lake Eola in Orlando in 1963. Click here to plan a visit to Lake Eola in Orlando. This photo is from Florida – A photographic journey by Hans Hannau. You can purchase a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Found this ad for the Elise Frank School of Art in a 1949 copy of Literary Florida.
A Corvair -Lockheed-Midas missile takes off of Cape Canaveral in the early 1960s. This photo is from ‘The First Book of Florida’ by Wyatt Blassingame. You can get a copy by clicking here or below.
Here’s the William Howard steamer docking in Silver Springs as it traveled along the waters shipping people and product from Jacksonville to Ocklawaha amongst other places along the rivers.
This is the Taylor High School girl’s basketball team in 1947. The book this is in claims this to be Taylor High School in Baker County, but I don’t believe there ever was a Taylor High School in Baker County.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the Lakeland Brass Band waiting to play for the soon arriving President Grover Cleveland. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Polk County’ by Louise Frisbee. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Here is Governor Fuller Warren with Rosemary Carpenter, Miss Florida, and Miss Fernandina in 1949. Dig Gov Warren’s snazzy shoes! This photo is from Literary Florida , May 1949.
This is Ruth Mathies, the Tri-City Queen, posing with one of the tiki guardians at Tiki Gardens in Pinellas County in 1962. Tiki Gardens closed in 1988, but if you look real close to can still find remnants of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This ad is from the July, 1949, copy of ‘Literary Florida’. Here’s what the location of Warwick’s Village looks like today: View Larger Map
Jacksonville had to put a ban on horse racing in Downtown Jacksonville after the challengers got out of hand and caused chaos for business. Jousting was a very popular sport at the time, as this group was involved in. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Melbourne A Century of Memories by Melbourne Chamber of Commerce My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is part of my Swampy’s Florida book collection: This is a wonderful selection of columns telling of the history of Melbourne and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a postcard of the Robert Richter Hotel mailed December 26th, 1951 to the Vegetable Section of the USDA in Wyndmoor Pennsylvania. There is a sub-section mentioned – E.R.R.L. Don’t know what that means but taht is where the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…