Archive for the ‘Florida’ Category
First Flight Golf Balls …
These photos were taken back in 1959 out at Pensacola Country Club. The two guys above I have no names for the two guys in the photo above. By the way, I am not even sure if they make First Flight golf balls anymore … the name does not ring a bell to me at all. I am sure a couple of you old timers will remember hitting a First Flight ball with your wooden head driver. I bet the young golfers will be surprised to know that before titanium heads on your drivers, they were made out of wood. That seems like the dark ages now. Here are some more photos of golfers, none of which are really familiar to me …
Bud Ellsworth, Jim Stamps and Carroll Armstrong are the golfers names. I only know that because I read their names on their golf bags. Now that I think about their names, they do sound remotely familiar. Like I mentioned earlier, these photos were taken out at Pensacola Country Club and I know that the background has changed in the last fifty something years, so might give some of there old members something to reminisce about. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Pensacola Mardi Gras …
Not sure if this Mardi Gras photo is from the 1920’s or 30’s. All of the people on the float are wearing black masks for some reason, making them even more scarey. The man on the podium is giving someone in the krew the key to the city. I have seen some other photos similar to this one, but not with the key to the city being handed over. The man doing the handing could either be the Mayor of Pensacola or maybe the City Manager … someone important for sure. Who knows, it might even be a relative to Quint Studer or some other mover and shaker back then, If anyone knows anything about this photo or anything from this era, please share it with us. I am curious about this one. I also hope everyone is enjoying their Mardi Gras Tuesday and will make it to church tomorrow for Ash Wednesday, if they are not too hung-over. As always, all comments are welcomed and appreciated and please check back … Frank
One more thing, my father did not take this photo. I just had a copy negative that I scanned for this image. Someone must have brought him the photo to copy and make prints. If anyone has any idea who the photographer was, please let me know. Most photographers from this era put their mark somewhere on the print to identify the photographer / artist, but this print did not. I am sure that it was photographed with a view camera because of the sharpness. The photographers back during this time names could have been ” Bell “, ” Turpin ” and ” Cottrell ” and would have had their names somewhere on the negative or print if they had made the image. Thanks again ….
Guest Blogger at ” Airports Made Simple ” …
I want to thank Deborah over at the blog Airports Made Simple for allowing me to be a guest blogger. She had seen this blog and was interested in the airport / airplane images from the 1950’s that I have shared with everyone. I apologize for the title of this post, I could not think of a title that had a better ring to it than the lame one that I wrote in the headline bar. I am sure that I will change it when I give it some thought. Her blog has a lot of information for people that fly on a regular basis … various airline pluses and minuses, airport tips … too much for me to write here. I included a link to her post on my Liberace photos, so once you get to her site, you can navigate around and see what she has and is interesting to you.
The photo above is one of several that my father made of an Eastern Airline plane on the tarmac at the Pensacola Airport back in the 1950’s. I have posted a few other images from this ” set ” before, but I never got around to working this image until recently.. So this is a new image and for those of you who used to fly into Pensacola back in the 1950’s, I hope that it brings back some fond memories. If anyone that reads this has some photos of the interior of the Pensacola Airport from back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, I would be interested in seeing them. Especially the restaurant and the check in counter for Eastern and later National Airlines. I ran across some photos that I had made from back in the 1970’s when then had remodeled the airport and I will post them later. The thing that sticks out the most to me are all of the cigarette ash tray holders through out the airport … pretty considerate! Thanks again for Deborah for asking me to be a guest blogger and please check out the link that I included in the first paragraph … she has a large readership with experienced travelers, so if you have any questions, this would be the place to ask them. Thanks again for looking and please check back … Frank
First Methdist Musicians …
This is a group of musicians from First Methodist Church in downtown Pensacola Florida on Wright Street from the 1950’s. I believe that the organist’s name is Morrison, but I am not positive about that. None of the other musicians look vaguely familiar. Here is one more of the group …
I know that someone out there will see this and let us know who they are, it just might take a little time. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Happy New Year …
This is SeaSide Florida, several years ago … I cropped off the half moon that was in the top part of the image. After looking at the moon for so long, I did not think that it really added much to the frame and took it off. This looks more like California than Florida, but it does not matter. I hope that everyone has a safe and happy New Year’s Eve … stop after the second drink ( better off to not even start ) and you will feel great tomorrow and be ready to get started with 2014. I wonder what 2014 will bring … No major changes for us, not like occurred in 2012 and 2013 … not really major, but some important changes none the less. Ok, enough rambling, stay safe and stay out of jail … Frank
Miami Beach From The 1950’s …
This was made back in the 1950’s … I have found several sleeves of these 120 negatives that my father made and I have worked several of them up and posted them earlier. Here are several more that I thought that I would post for your viewing enjoyment. The next show you the ” Colonnades ” Hotel down on Miami Beach. I am not sure if this place is still located on Miami Beach …
Now here is the hotel …
And finally, a view of one of the neighborhoods down in Miami … I can almost see Tubbs and Crocket hanging out on this street waiting for the bad guys to show with the goods ( now don’t say you do not know who Crocket and Tubbs are? ). I caught a Miami Vice on TV Land a while back and I could not get over how dated the show looked. If you look close, I swear you see Tubbs and Crocket in the back of that woody parked in the street. I will post some other photos from Miami later … thanks for looking … Frank
First Methodist in Snow …
This photo was taken back in February 1957, when it snowed so hard and there were several inches on the ground for a day or so. Notice the snow on the roof of the church. I found this photo years ago and I started to remove the telephone pole and parking meters out front, but it was just too much trouble to do. Let me rephrase that statement … I was spending too many hours on removing the objects and I still had a lot of hours to go before I had every item taken out. This is going to be a job that I have to pay someone to do for me if I want it done correctly. Taking out the objects is not the hard and time consuming part, it is replacing parts of the image to make them blend in with the original setting. So I thought that I would just post it the way it is and see what type of response I get, if I get any at all. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
First Baptist Church in Pensacola Florida …
This was the church building for the First Baptist Church in Pensacola Florida back in the 1950’s before the new sanctuary was constructed in the mid-to-later 1950’s. I have an interior view somewhere that I will post later. Here are several of the new sanctuary below …
This last photo is church letting out from the first service held in the new sanctuary. I have several interior views that I will post later and also several events like the ground-breaking for this church and several from the Easter Sunrise Service that First Baptist used to hold over at Bayview Park on Bayou Texar. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Fiesta Parade 1956 …
These are from the Fiesta Parade of 1956. I do not have any comments about any of these … they are pretty much self – explanatory. The first photo below is of the car carrying the Governor of Florida at the time – LeRoy Collins. There is a photo of him in an earlier post and it might have been taken before the parade started …
I think that there are 16 photos in this post and I believe that I broke it up on the other blog that I had, but since I did not have any comments or information about any of these images … I just decided to post them all. If anyone recognizes any of these groups or people, please let us hear from you. Thanks for looking … Frank
Pure Oil Stations …
How many of you can remember going to a ” Filling Station ” and having someone come out to your car to ” service ” your car? And be happy to do it! I do not recognize any of these ” attendants ” or the stations were they are working. These photos were made back in the 1950’s and I did not start driving until 1969, but I can still remember going to service stations. I do not think that they were phased out until sometime in the late 1970’s and maybe up until the mid-1980’s, when everything became ” self-serve “. This FHP patrolman looks like a nice guy … I bet he would let you off with a “warning”, something that the FHP patrolman now seem to have never heard of. A speeding ticket back in the 1950’s most likely only ran $25 or so, now, you are looking at upwards of $200 or more.
The sign on the wall says C.E. Bowden and that name does not register anything to me. The area next to his building looks like a row of buildings that you might find in some of the rural towns around the Florida Panhandle back in the 1950’s. I am thinking Marianna, Chipley, Milton … some little town off of Highway 90.
This looks more like it could have been made around Pensacola. The lady looks happy … to be riding around in a car with no air conditioning and a car full of kids … in the summer. My how times have changed. She is a soccer mom and she does not even know it! I have a few more of these negatives that I will post in the future. Times were much simpler then … how many times have you heard that before? Thanks for looking and let us hear what you think … Frank
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