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!”
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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…
As this is written The Garden Cafeteria in St. Petersburg is being demolished. The building was designed buy St. Petersburg’s first architects and for 40 years had the restaurant shown in the postcard above. Later the building was known as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Perlman brothers and their father at the original Lum’s in 1956. They took a small bar that served hot dogs in the early ’50s in Miami Beach and turned it into a chain of hundreds of restaurants throughout Florida[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is a wonderful way to present a fishing exhibit. It at the Winter Garden Heritage Museum. A short distance away is what was once one of the premiere bass fishing areas in the country. That area is Lake Apopka.[…]↓ 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…
One of the legends of comic books, Joe Kubert died Sunday, August 12th, Joe was not born, did not live, or draw about Florida. However, Swampy’s handler, Rob Smith, Jr., me, did go to Joe’s school, The Joe Kubert School[…]↓ 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…
The Florida History text book is available now for homeschool teachers or, as I’ve been told, for anyone who’d like to read a short version of Florida’s history! Just $6 each and includes questions, projects and even my phone number[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Orlando Chamber of Commerce tacked ‘Orlando – The Action Center’ to advertising in the mid-’70s. Here’s an early brochure from that time. The top 2 of the collage of photos is of Lake Eola. The next is of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via the Florida Historical Society: ‘Today in Florida History! 1969 – Three days after the historic launch from John F. Kennedy Kenedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s Juniper Springs July 14th after Swampy’s Rob Smith Jr. gave a talk about water and Florida history as part of Juniper Springs summer lecture series.