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Palafox Street …
This is at the top of Palafox Street where The Confederate Memorial stands and the road has to go around the memorial to continue on north. The house that you see on the right side of the image is where The First Baptist Church is located today. This photo was taken when it snowed in Pensacola back in 1957 ( could be 1958 ), but I believe it is 1957. I have it somewhere around here and I will go check later to make sure of the date. I will post some more this coming week, I have a few already to go. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Pensacola … “The City of Your Dreams” …
This photo is one someone had me copy and I saved myself a copy. I can only guess that the men are the city manager and city council. I can only guess that the time is the 1920’s and I can not be any more specific than that. I think that motto ” The City of Your Dreams ” is better than what we have now ” The Up Side of Florida “, or something to that effect. I wonder if these guys paid a hundred grand for their motto … they probably just gave someone a couple of snow cones and put their name in the paper. Times have certainly changed!! Let us hear from you and thanks for looking … 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
Sun Motor Tester at Son Motors …
This is another image that I ran through the Lucis Art Filter and it really makes it stand out. A straight b&w photo is interesting, but does not have the contrast and detail that this print has now. I do not have much to add … Thanks for looking … Frank
The “New” Medical Center Clinic on Palafox Street …
This a photograph of the first Medical Center Clinic that is located over on Palafox Street. It has been abandoned for years and has really fallen into a state of disrepair. The original scan is posted below …
As you can tell, I removed the people from the side of the building and the telephone poll out front. I probably would also have removed the street sign next to the telephone, but I wasted to much time on the telephone pole. For future reference … there is not a magic wand in Photoshop that magically removes people and objects without leaving any traces. It takes a lot of selecting, cutting, pasting, masking and blending to get these photos to look like the top photo. Most people do not realize hoe much work is entailed to get all of this to blend seamlessly and to look believable. I have shown one image of the Hotel San Carlos that I have a before and after view … at some point I might put together all of the steps involved in creating these images. Thanks for looking and let me hear what you think … Frank
Florida Float in Fiesta Parade …
This is the state of Florida’s float in the 1959 Fiesta of Five Flags Parade. I wonder whose bright idea it was to dress up a bunch of ten year olds as oranges and have them march 3 or 4 miles up and down Palafox Street in 100 degree heat. The state must have been broke back in 1959, also. Tallahassee could not even spring for a car to tow the float, so they just got a couple of Boy Scouts to pull the float! If anyone remembers any of this, please let us hear from you … especially if you might have been one of the oranges walking up and Palafox Street or one of the Boy Scouts. If those Scouts did not get a towing merit badge out of this, they were robbed! Thanks for looking … Frank
Palafox Street Through the Years …1940’s to the 1980’s …
Here are several photos that I have of Palafox Street through the years. The first one is from sometime in the 1940’s I believe. It is a photograph that I scanned that I have had laying around for years. It has no real significance other that it is of the intersection of Palafox and Garden Streets …
If anyone has a date on this photo, please let me hear from you. The next one is from the 1950’s … it looks as if the Florida Theater was showing ” Gone With The Wind ” and people were lined-up waiting to get into the matinee.
Can anyone remember the ” Tiny Waffle ” Shop … that’s a new one on me. I know that I spent many a Saturday at the Florida Theater back in the 1960’s . Now we are going to jump forward to the 1980’s …
This is looking south down Palafox Street … the line of people waiting to get into the Florida Theater would have been standing on the left side of the frame. One more thing, I had posted a photo of James Cagney riding in the back of a car in a parade a while back … that photograph was made at this intersection here, Palafox and Gregory Street, and Hannah’s Pharmacy was in the background ( I do not know if you can recognize it in that photo, but that is it ) . I am not sure of the exact year that this was made, but I would guess that it would have been in the mid-1980’s. And finally, a photo right before the San Carlos Hotel was demolished …
And finally, we are back at the corner of Palafox and Garden Street … sometime 1985 or 86 or 87. I do not which one, but all I can say is what a big change! I hope everyone liked that look through the ages … I did not know if any of them were worth putting in a post by themselves, but run together they were sort of interesting. Thanks for looking and let me hear what you think of these … Frank
The Rev. Henry Bell Hodgkins …
These portraits of Rev. Henry Bell Hodgkins from Christ Church on Wight Street were made back in the 1950’s. I went to Episcopal Day School from 1958 to 1965 and Rev. Hodgkins was there at the church during this time, so remember him fairly well. He was a big man with a big voice … you could hear him from the pews in the back as well as you could hear him from the ones up front. And this was before the days of sound systems! He was also extremely nice and was friendly to all of us kids … I can never remember him being mad or angry the whole time I was there. Here are a few more of him …
This last image is how I remember him, more than the other three. I do not think that I have ever seen any of these images all of the years that I have been going down to the church … even though it has been years since I have gone to the church offices. I posted one of these photos on the old site, but I do not believe that I posted all four of them. Thanks for looking …
Another of the San Carlos Hotel …
Someone gave me this photo of the old San Carlos Hotel sometime back and I just got around to cleaning it up recently. My dad did not make this photo and I rarely post other people’s photo, but what makes this photo interesting is ????? Can you guess …. I will give you another couple of minutes. No little Johnnie, this is not the best photo of the front of the San Carlos showing the Fiesta Lounge that I have, although that is a good guess. No little Suzy, not because there is no wheel-chair access ramp at St. Michael’s Catholic Church. You are correct, Cleroy ( that would be Leroy, but with a “C” … a Southern name ) this photo shows the Christmas decorations that the City of Pensacola used to put out back in the 1950’s. In fact, I can remember these same decorations being used up into the 1980’s, maybe even the 1990’s. How is that for some mileage? I am sorry Cleroy, but my budget does not allow to give you a prize, but if you go down to City Hall, I bet Mayor Hayward and the City Council would dig around and they could probably find some of these decorations for your yard. Good luck, Cleroy and thanks for looking … As usual, all comments are appreciated.
The Harbor View Restaurant …
The Harbor View Restaurant used to be in the old Municipal Auditorium at the foot of Palafox Street that was torn down at the end of the 1990’s to make way for the Plaza DeLuna. This restaurant was before my time … I believe it operated in the 1950’s and 60;s, but I am not exactly sure of the dates. And, I am not really sure who owned or operated the business. One thing that I can tell you just judging from this photo, the place must have been first class! I have found several other photos of the interior that my father made, however I could not put my hans on them now. When I do run across them again, I will set them aside and post them. If anyone has any comments about the place, please share them with us … Thanks for looking
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