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…
This the Bethel Baptist Institutional Church, the oldest Baptist church in Jacksonville. This photo is from 1997. This photo is from ‘Jacksonville: Reflections of Excellence’ by Deborah Gianoulis. Click here or below to purchase a copy of this book.
Here’s a birds eye view of a couple birds. Eagles, in fact. And their newly hatched babies. Live and non-stop. Tune in to see how the other side lives. http://www.dickpritchettrealestate.com/eagle-feed.html
This area has certainly changed since the image of this unmailed postcard was taken. this is the lighthouse at Ponce Inlet, just south of Daytona Beach. The trees have been cleared for more parking and a couple of buildings would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s St Peter Catholic Church in DeLand. Click here to read the history of the church and visit the church’s website to plan a visit to this historic church.