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Downtown Lake Wales on Park Avenue, 1940s. – Swampy’s Florida Postcard Monday.
on November 18, 2024
at 6:00 am
This is part of a larger fold-out package of Lake Wales images. There’s an address written that I can’t read of some where in Pennsylvania as if to mail, but no postmark exists on the package. This postcard is part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
50 years ago households dreamed of such furnishings advertised for television viewing. Rather astounding how tasteful & stylish additions to the home transform into the dull flat screen panel of plastic and screen nailed to walls today. The convoluted Wall[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the Old Christ Church in the pioneer village in Downtown Pensacola. The structure was built in 1832. The interior looks as if the church is still active. In fact, the church has not been active for services since 1935.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Florida Postcard Thursday: Downtown St. Petersburg & The Vinoy, 1948.
on November 7, 2024
at 6:00 am
Downtown St. Petersburg during another Boom, post WW II. The area was thriving and would well into the ’60s.The strip of trees jutting off shore and into the water is what is better known today as the pier area. Hard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“It’s Really Cool” declares the sign of an installation of the new-fangled air conditioner at the Golf Park Building restaurant in Miami in the 1920s or 30s. Seth Bramson, author of the book noted below, notes that the open doors[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This ad appeared in the Miami News, January 16th, 1950. Notice the round trip to Key West – $6.25! For those too young to know: Greyhound stations were rather prominent in Downtown areas of cities all over Florida. Bus travel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Greetings from Largo in Pinellas County! – Swampy’s Florida Postcards.
on November 4, 2024
at 6:00 am
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The Shrine of La Leche, St. Augustine. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services.
on November 3, 2024
at 6:00 am
The Shrine of La Leche, St. Augustine. – Swampy’s Florida Sunday Services. This postcard doesn’t have a date on it. Well, that is except for the date of September 8th, 1565, which is when it is thought our country’s first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Swampy’s travels over time he has seen many a wee child play with toys. Toys are played a lot less these days. Decades ago playing with toys were also a rite of passage to future endeavors for young people.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little person with a big hat stands atop this locomotive ran that between 1889 until 1895 from Jupiter to Juno. The railroad was named the Celestial Railroad. It’s name came as two other rail stops between Jupiter and Lake[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 1954 film, ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’, is not known for it’s Florida location shots. However, the underwater scenes were shot in, what is now, Ed Ball Wakulla Springs State Park thirty minutes south of Tallahasasee. The underwater shots[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…