A shot from the Lake Mary water tank of the ACLRR train depot. Photo from ‘Lake Mary’s Beginnings & the Roaring Twenties in Lake Mary & Sanford, Florida ‘ by Margaret Green. The book is out of print, but may[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Here are local ladies advertising am Indian Rocks Fireman’s Fish Fry and Ham Dinner in the 1950s. Notice the simplicity of the fire department structure. Bet those were locally caught fish! This photo is from ‘Indian Rocks – As It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida Festival in south Orange County, early 1980s. – Swampy’s Florida Postcards.
This unmailed postcard was produced by the ‘Florida Festival’ folks themselves. ‘Florida Festival’ was an upscale bazaar like attraction that was across, owned and run by ‘Sea World’ that sat across the street. Tourists mostly went to this spot where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida #Sunday Services: 1st United Methodist Church of Ocala, pre-1889.
This was the First United Methodist Church in Ocala and was built in 1850. It was replaced in 1889. The church was built at the corner of 1st Street and Fort King Avenue. Here’s what that area looks like today.: […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I nabbed this off the website mentioned below and don’t know when this sign came down or if someone even kept it. There were signs like this all over Florida with just the insertion of a different location into where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Postcard Wednesday: The London Wax Museum in St. Pete Beach
Here’s a 1960’s postcard of the Toussaud London Wax Museum in St. Pete Beach. Since the attraction opened in 1963 and judging by the age of the car, I’d say this is a postcard from around the time it opened.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visits with Butch Wilson, who runs the fantastic Clewiston Historical Museum. The museum displays the vast history of the area from prehistoric to the sugar industry to present. Butch showed a series of recent amazing improvements to the museum.[…]↓ 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.
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.
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.
On Friday, August 24th, a marker to the television series ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ was unveiled at Lori Wilson Park off A1A in Cocoa Beach. The commemoration was to recognize the the popular TV series took place in Cocoa Beach,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…