Postcard featuring the Placid Tower, circa 1960s When Earnest Oakley Hunt moved to Orlando from Colorado in 1938, he dreamed of building an observation tower. After relocating to Sebring in 1947...
Postcard featuring the Placid Tower, circa 1960s When Earnest Oakley Hunt moved to Orlando from Colorado in 1938, he dreamed of building an observation tower. After relocating to Sebring in 1947...
Fort Lauderdale Stadium opened in 1962 as the spring training stadium for the New York Yankees. Fort Lauderdale Stadium opened in 1962 and was the New York Yankees spring training stadium since its...
The stadium was last home to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers Lockhart Stadium was dedicated at a football game on September 18, 1959, named after former city commissioner H.Y. “Doug”...
Owners of Fort Bengali Leon “Buddy” Hough Located in Saint Augustine on State Road 16, Fort Bengali was first opened in the late 1950s by Leon Hamilton “Buddy” Hough as the...
Postcard for Silver Springs Wild Waters was a water park located in Silver Springs, Florida, and was the sister park of Silver Springs Nature Theme Park, the site of Florida’s oldest commercial...
The Lenape Bar and Wynn Hotel, date unknown Genovar’s Hall was built by Sebastian Genovar in 1895 as a grocery store. It is located in the LaVilla neighborhood in Jacksonville and was...
The campground of Lake Chekika Chekika was first purchased by Samuel Grossman back in 1917 where he attempted to grow tomatoes and then tried drilling for oil on the site. While drilling for oil, the...
Undated photograph of the bat house The Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower, also known as the Perky Bat Tower, was built in 1929 by Richter Clyde Perky, a real estate developer from Denver who owned a fishing...
Short History of Jai Alai Big Bend Jai Alai is a relic of what is now considered a rather obscure sport, was once the fastest spectator sport in the world. Jai alai started in the Basque region of...
Originally known as Port Malabar Lanes, the 24 lane bowling alley opened in 1972 at 2170 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, Florida. At the time, it was Palm Bay’s only bowling center until the...
Tom Gaskins In the late 1930s, Tom Gaskins moved his family from Arcadia to Palmdale, homesteading along Fish eating Creek on land acquired from the Lykes Brothers company which dealt with citrus...
Photo Credit: Mykl Roventine, circa 1990s – Alligatorland Zoo was renamed to Jungleland Zoo in 1995, with many of the original remaining including the giant gator statue. Irlo Bronson...
A small house once part of the mini-golf course The Dania Beach Hurricane is a wooden roller coaster at Boomers! in Dania Beach, Florida. It was designed by Jules Ross and the Stand Company and was...
History of the Bongoland Ruins of Port Orange, Fla. In Port Orange, Florida, lies the remains of a defunct amusement park once called Bongoland, its history dating back as far as the early 1800s...
Raz Island Located in the middle of Bay Lake, there is an island known today as Discovery Island, which is owned by Walt Disney World. The island though has a long history going as far as the early...
Hilario Candela stands alongside the Marine Stadium during its construction, 1963. Spillis Candela DMJM Archives Designed by architect Hilario Candela, a 28-year-old recent immigrant from Cuba, the...
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