This watercolor painting by Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. will be in the silent auction at the Marion County Springs Festival tomorrow, Saturday the 24th, at Rainbow Springs State Park. The educational and music filled event runs from 10am to 4pm.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Orange Blossom Cafe is no longer with us in this form. It is now Orange Blossom Catering and you can learn and plan a party with them by clicking here. Below is a photo of their location today. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a preview of the Swampy’s Florida webcomic coming up Sunday. The subject is about our weather. Want to guess what the specific subject is about?
Coming next Saturday to the Marion County Springs Festival is the introduction of this newest Swampy print! It’s of the location of the Festival – Rainbow Springs. A photo was given to me of a section of the Rainbow River[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Catalina Inn opened at 33rd Street and Interstate 4 connected to the Catalina Isles neighborhood that still sits between the hotel and Clear Lake behind it. Since it’s opening in the late 1960s the hotel has had many names.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s friend Dan Christian with one of his special Florida books available in the A. Parker Books, Sarasota, spot at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in The Coliseum in Downtown St. Petersburg. Come on down! The event runs through Sunday.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s friends at Copperfish Books hold up a few special Florida treasures they have here at the Florida Antiquarian Book Fair in The Coliseum in Downtown St. Petersburg. Copperfish Books is in Punta Gorda. Stop by and see enjoy yourself[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You can read about Fred Karl at the Tampa Tribune site by clicking here.
Below is what inside the matchbook – Below is the full matchbook –
Swampy stops at Durante Park on Longboat Key. A terrific park where it’s easy to stroll amongst the mangroves along a shell path, a bridge or boardwalks. The trail is not the typical short mangrove trails around the state. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postcard showing the Rainbow Queen which took folks out from the park itself out along the Rainbow River to see the natural sites. Rainbow Springs is the site this year for the Marion County Springs Festival that Swampy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This undated postcard does describe the location on the back – ‘Cleveland Street business section looking west, Clearwater, Florida’. By the cars, I’d say this is from around 1960. Obviously, by the lights and star, around Christmas time. Please post[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…