This unmailed postcard shows The Fontainebleu on the left and the Eden Roc on the right. The hotels had quite a rivalry back in the ’50s and still battle it out for customers today. Both hotels were designed by Morris[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a view from about midway on the Mile, looking east towards Douglas Boulevard. The structures are mostly still there over 80 years later. Even parking is as shown. The “Air Conditioned” pharmacy in the bottom left corner was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Greetings from Miami-Miami Beach” welcomes those that sent this postcard . The card features all sorts of beach scenes. The postcard seems to date from the 1930s. It’s unmarked and produced by the Dade County Newsdealers Supply Co. This postcard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked postcard appears to be from the late 1960s of Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg.You can still visit Sunken Gardens today. Click here to plan your trip to this Florida botanical wonder.:http://www.stpete.org/attractions/sunken_gardens/index.php This postcard is part of the Swampy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Knowing the area over the decades, this unmarked postcard appears to be of the southeast corner of Lake Eola. Maybe along Central Boulevard. It appears to be from around 1910. If you look close you can see two trails to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida collection.)
Here is a place many in Coral Gables and southern Miami learned how to swim. It is right in the midst of a residential neighborhood and has always been a highlight of Coral Gables. It is still open today and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a postmarked 1907 postcard of Ocean Avenue in Palm Beach that made it’s way to Davenport, Iowa.
From the Platt Street Bridge is a view of Downtown Tampa. Below the bridge is the Hillsborough River. Practically everything in view here is gone now. There is no date on this postcard, but guesstimating from the structures that this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…