Archive for November 2013
Old Sacred Heart Hospital Nursing School …
This building on 12th Avenue used to be the home of the old Sacred Heart Hospital Nursing School. I am not sure of the years that it was built and was the school and home for the nurses of Sacred Heart Hospital. From 1969 until around 1979, it was the home of the Academy of Arts and Sciences … this was were I went to high school for 10th, 11th and 12th grades and graduated in 1971. I believe there were 55 kids in my class. If you look real close you will see three nuns and two nurses in this photo, which was made sometime in the 1950’s, I would guess. I have posted a view from the other side earlier, but this is the first from the south end looking north. If you happen to know the years when this was the nursing school, please let us know … Thanks for looking … Frank
Pensacola Ski Team …
Not Snow Skiing, WATER SKIING ! I found some negatives a while back from the 1970’s that my father had taken of the Pensacola Ski Team / Club. I do not know any of the girls, but a few look vaguely familiar. I am sure that this was taken at the Bonifay’s ” Ski Beach ” on Bayou Texar. For some unknown reason, this was the only negative I scanned … I will have to go back and find the negative envelope and scan some more. Thanks for looking and if anyone can identify any of these girls, please do. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Baylen and Government Streets …
This is the corner of Baylen and Government Streets in 1960. In today’s Pensacola News Journal Sunday Edition ( 3 Nov 13 ) the attorney firm that occupies the corner where George’s Grill is located had an ad celebrating their 25 years in business. The ad had a nice photo showing the exterior of their office building. I remember that I had seen this negative years ago and tracked it down and posted it to show how times have changed. This view was made 53 years ago and none of these building are no longer there. The Professional Building was torn down years ago to make way for the new Escambia County Annex building and garage. Next to the Professional Building was Mayes Printing and Office Equipment, which moved out to Car City in the 1980’s ( ? ) , not sure of the date. I do not remember George’s Grill, but I remember Mayes and the Professional Building. Thanks for looking … Frank
Sacred Heart Nurses …
Here are several examples of nurses portraits that my father used to do in the 1950’s and into the 1960’s, before the nursing school closed down on 12th Avenue. The name on the girl’s dress reads ” Broughton ” . The girl’s name below I could note read. I will have to find the negative envelope that these came out of to see if there are names written down . But that is not my point … I just wanted to post several examples of portraits that my father made of these girls when they graduated. It isn’t funny how you just say “girls” and don’t think about men being nurses in this era. I cannot even tell you a date when men started entering the nursing program … maybe one of the viewers to this blog will be able to tell us. Looking back, after I made that previous statement, I cannot even think back to when I started seeing men working as nurses in the hospitals locally. Here is the other nurse …
I thank everyone for taking the time to view this blog and for those who post comments. Please check back … I have a few images worked up and ready to post and I plan to put them up in the next week or so. Thanks again … Frank
Corner of 12th Avenue and Gonzalez Street …
This is the corner of 12th Avenue and Gonzalez Street around 1949. You see my father’s first studio on the right side of the image. He opened it up in 1948 when he left the X-ray Department at the old Sacred Heart Hospital in 1948. He was in this location for 6 or 7 years until the Moulton Family built the building on 12th Avenue and he moved over to that location. I have several photos of this corner throughout this blog … my personal favorite is the panorama view showing all the kids that had just gotten out of Clubbs Junior High School two blocks north. I can remember it like it was yesterday … literally hundreds of kids walking and running around hollering and screaming at one another thirty or forty minutes. I was only 5 or 6 at the time and it always scared me. Well, that is another story … thanks for looking. If any of you happen to have been some of these kids, let us hear your stories or the ones that you can share with us Please check back … Frank
Billory Baptist Church, Holley Florida …
This was the original Billory Baptist Church in Holley Florida. I would guess that this was made back in the 1950’s. I want to say that this church has been torn down, because I know that another larger was built in the 1970’s. If anyone knows any history about this church, please share it with us. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Oldsmobile / General Motors Parts Department …
The photo above was from a local Oldsmobile / General Motors car dealership in downtown Pensacola. The photo was made in September of 1948. Notice how the service tech is wearing a lab coat and how clean the parts department was. It looks as if the parts guy was even wearing a tie and might have had on a lab coat, also. If you look toward the back of the frame, you see a ” control center ” made of glass stuck above the cars … to monitor work production, not to catch any service techs goofing-off and not working. Now, this was back in 1948, so I can imagine the customer’s response to a facility such as this. After having dealt with a ” shade-tree ” mechanic, this was like going to a doctor’s office / hospital. I am sure that General Motors had this in mind when they had dealerships convert their service departments into spaces such as this … now when the customer received their bill, they might have to be taken to the emergency room from the sticker shock! Thanks for looking and all comments are welcomed … Frank
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