Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Cruising Tampa Bay.
on September 26, 2012
at 1:39 am
Here’s a matchbook for the ‘M/V Pinella’ that would give people the opportunity to cruise and fish the bay and nearby waters.
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Downtown Fort Myers in 1925. There’s the Lee County Bank, which had the post office in inside at the time. The Edison Theatre played silent movies. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Fort Myers’ by Marian Godown & Alberta Rawchuck. You[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‘Funny Folks Behind the Serious Business of Cartoons’ is the name of a fun panel of Florida cartoonists and author Tim Hollis this Saturday at the Orange County Regional History Center. Tim Hollis starts off the event at 12:30[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Robert Wilder was raised in Daytona Beach and the Florida locale inspired many novels written by him. ‘Bright Feather’ was published in 1948. Many think that Patrick Smith’s magnificent ‘A Land Remembered’ is the only one of it’s kind. Actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Tallahassee it’s the Florida Railway and Navigation Company locomotive in 1901. This is from ‘Pictorial History of Florida’ by Richard Bowe. You can purchase a copy by clicking here of below.
It’s Sulphur Springs in Tampa around 1900s. This was once a popular swimming hole in Tampa. At one point becoming a tourist attraction. It was in an area near Tampa that was the community of Sulphur Springs. It had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Publix and Eckerds at Holieanna Shopping Center on US 17 & 92 in Winter Park. This Publix had the marble and tile mural also as part of the facade, of course. What made this combo a bit different[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the 1920s the Thompson family just off Key West would capture sharks and later bale the meat to ship out to food shops and restaurants.
Swampy’s Matchbook Wednesday: Carnival Bar, Miami
on September 19, 2012
at 12:41 am
This is the matchbook for the Carnival Bar that once existed in Downtown Miami. The Bayside Office Center now sits in a good deal of the block that the Carnival once was. The address is now being used by Capricorn[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The house and mode of transportation of teh William Moore family in St. Cloud. Don’t know the date, but probably around 1900. This photo is from ‘Yesterday in Florida: Volume 3’ which you can purchase by clicking here or below.
To go along with the earlier post, here’s Sears at Fashion Square Mall. The first Sears in Orlando was in Downtown Orlando on Orange Avenue. It stood just to the left of where the people are walking across the street[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Woodsawing events brought young people in to compete and help run steam out of showing off. Here’s one in Jackson county in the 1930s. This photo is from ‘Yesterday in Florida: Volume 3’ which you can purchase by clicking here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…