Balbin Bros. Cigar Factory The story of West Tampa’s former Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory dates back to 1904 when the three-story brick Romanesque Revival style building was built for the...
Balbin Bros. Cigar Factory The story of West Tampa’s former Balbin Brothers Cigar Factory dates back to 1904 when the three-story brick Romanesque Revival style building was built for the...
Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man cabinets, some of the popular arcade games of the time The first arcade games were the old midway of the 1920s which included shooting galleries, ball-toss games, and...
History of Public School No. 8 The Architects Richard Lewis Brown, Jacksonville’s First Black Architect Now recognized as Public School No. 8, the institution originally opened in 1909 as the...
Florida Baptist Convention Building Constructed in 1924, the Florida Baptist Convention Building was designed by renowned architect Henry John Klutho to house the denominational offices of the...
History of Holleman Park Methodist Church The Birth of Southside Methodist In 1913, when Miami was still a sparsely settled young city of just 9,000 residents, a small but dedicated group of...
A number of old and classic cars littered the property at one point Located Fl-20 just outside of Blountstown, the Seminole Restaurant was operated by James O. Holt and his wife Iris M. Holt. The...
St. Anastasia Parish Although it had been organized just three years earlier, in 1914, the small Roman Catholic parish of St. Anastasia decided to build an impressive parochial school to serve 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...
Independent Life Insurance Company The Independent Life and Accidental Insurance Company was founded in 1920 by seven businessmen; George Cook Coburn, Jacob Franklin Bryan II, James Henry Gooding...
Alfred Easton Poor. Photo from Core77 Constructed in 1967, the 7,700 square-foot bomb shelter was built by AT&T to be used in the event of a nuclear disaster to house five people for up to 30...
Information came from the book, “Lost Miami: Stories and Secrets Behind Magic City Ruins” which can be purchased from Abandoned Atlas. Royal Crown Company Inc., originally called the Union Bottling...
Founding of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was first organized under an 1897 act of the legislature and began operations on the Marianna campus on January...
American Beach Evans Rendezvous was a well-known African-American nightclub located on American Beach, a historic coastal community that gained popularity among African American vacationers in the...
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...
Slender and sandy, Egmont Key strategically guards the primary shipping lane in and out of Tampa Bay. It is home to a lighthouse and has a long history as a US military outpost. During the Third...
A postcard depicting the Bahia Honda bridge during its operation Located on the west end of Bahia Honda Key, the bridge was originally built between 1905 and 1912 by Henry Flagler as part of the...
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