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...
History of Lockhart Stadium Constructed in 1959 alongside the Fort Lauderdale Stadium baseball park, Lockhart Stadium was originally built for local high school sports. It was designed to host...
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 tower on Sugarloaf Key History The Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower, frequently referred to as the Perky Bat Tower, stood for decades as a unique monument to early biological...
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...
Alligator Safari Zoo Jungleland Zoo originally opened in the early 1970s as Alligator Safari Zoo, which was strategically located along the Irlo Bronson Memorial Highway in Kissimmee, Florida, the...
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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