Here’s a two sided mailer for La Cafe De Paris in Fort Lauderdale from the 1960s. The restaurant opened 50 years ago and is now one of the oldest French restaurants in Florida. Here’s what the building looks like today[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the long running and very well known B&B Fisheries in Daytona Beach. It had been opened more than 50 years and recently closed. Besides purchasing fish, it was also a restaurant known to serve the freshest fish. It was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a part of the artwork I’m drawing for the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Lake Wales’ coloring and guide book.
One of the Great books once produced by Great Outdoors Publishing. This short and concise 28 pages came out in 1980. It was written and with very nice illustrations by Francis Wyly Hall.
A matchbook from the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach.
Paving roadway sure has changed since 1912. This group is paving Eagle Lake Loop in Eagle Lake in Polk County. This photo is from ‘The History of Winter Haven’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Saw this flat bed with a team of bulls on it. The flat bed was going south towards Tampa. Maybe even further south to Sarasota or Fort Myers or even Miami. I was curious where such a load was going.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s another Coca-Cola distributor in Winter Haven. This photo is from ‘The History of Winter Haven’. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Swampy and Rob Smith, Jr. were part of a panel discussion put together by Rob for the opening of a Peanuts exhibit at the Orange County Regional History Center. Below are a few photos taken at the event. More to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tim was so kind to open an event Swampy was involved with yesterday at teh Orange County Regional History Museum that it seems best to profile on e of his books on book day. This is a wonderful book filled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is Brevard Avenue in Downtown Cocoa in the 1920s. This photo is from ‘History of Brevard County’ by Jerrell Shofner.
The Venetian Causeway opens in 1926 to help folks get back and forth from Miami and Miami Beach. This photo is from ‘Miami: the Way We Were’. You can purchase a copy of this book by clicking here or below.