Jumping for dinner at Marineland! This photo is from around 1960. This is from ‘The American Travel Series – Florida’ by Andrew Hepburn. You can purchase one of these travel guides by clicking here or below.
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Downtown Jacksonville, 1950. From ‘Yesterday in Florida – Annual Volume 1’ You can purchase one by clicking here or below.
Anyone taking a bus this morning? This is a photo of the bus taking folks to the Qui-Si-Sana Hotel in Green Cove Springs in the early 1900s. The photo is from ‘Parade of Memories – A History of Clay County,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are two wonderful photos taken yesterday by Kelly Shannon Kelly while at Homosassa Springs. Spotted these on Facebook that Kelly posted and wanted to share them. It just so happened that a Homosassa Springs postcard was scheduled for today,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Peter Updike sent along this photo to share of someone crossing the road to get to the other side. Peter took this shot “while bike riding in the Half Moon WMA, what a thrill. Gator Country!”
Here are two views of Ridegwood Avenue in Daytona Beach. The top one is from 1950. The bottom one is from one year later in 1951. These photos being an example of the drive to build roads in Florida in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you have a Friendly Floridian card?
on August 14, 2012
at 3:00 pm
Dick Pope, the owner of Cypress Gardens & stalwart Florida promoter, cooked up this pin & card around 1970 with the support of, then Governor, Claude Kirk, to encourage tourists to visit Florida as much as possible. Pope was under[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the New River near Fort Lauderdale a group of Seminole go hunting, 1904. They would later sell what they caught at the Stranahan Store in what is now Downtown Fort Lauderdale. From ‘Pelts, Plumes and Hides – White Traders[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a wonderful mural in Okeechobee! It’s at 204 North Parrott Avenue, Okeechobee, FL. A Sprint cell phone store fronts the building. Here’s another part of the mural. Here’s the plaque that goes with it that gives a list of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Tuesday Ads: Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch, Silver Springs.
on June 12, 2012
at 1:06 pm
Tommy Bartlett’s Deer Ranch was a fixture next to Silver Springs from the early 1960’s to the early 1970’s. The focus was deer and, of all things, Santa Claus. A tourist could feed deer and visit the South Pole at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Postcard Thursday: El Rancho Hotel Court, Tampa, 1960s.
on May 24, 2012
at 2:24 am
The El Rancho Hotel Court is still there at 7100 Nebraska Avenue in Tampa. Very unfortunately, the sign is gone. The card isn’t postmarked, but judging by the cars in the back of the motel, I’d say this is sometime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the pencils to tomorrow’s webcomic!