Posts Tagged ‘Downtown Pensacola Florida’
San Carlos Hotel …
Another one of the San Carlos Hotel from around 1955 or so. This is probably the best photo of the exterior of the hotel that I have. This is cropped tighter than what is in the original negative and I will post it later when I run across it. Pensacola was sure a active and vibrant city during this time after World War II. Soldiers were coming back and getting out of the service and staying. The housing industry was growing, looks like people were buying cars and spending money … times were good! This is also one of my favorite images from this era that I have run across and cleaned-up. I will do some research on the San Carlos Hotel down at the Pensacola Historical Society and share it with you in the future. Thanks for looking …
Gilmore’s Furniture Store …
This business was located down on Garden street. Coastal Bank is located in this spot now. This corner had a special meaning to my dad because when his family left Muscogee, FL, they moved to this corner where his mother ran a rooming house that was located on this corner back in 1925. I will share some stories of his in some later posts of this time in his life and living in downtown Pensacola in the late 1920’s. Thanks for looking …
Baylen Street …
This is Baylen Street 1955 / 6 or later. You are looking toward Government Street. My father was standing were the Judicial Center would be located today. You see a Markham System business in front of you, which is no longer there. The attorney’s building on the right side is still there, it used to be Mr. Richard Merritt’s law office and now houses several lawyers. Where the Markham business used to be is now a parking lot. My father was taking this photo for Richard Merritt showing the exterior of his office building on the right side of the frame. I have some photos of the interior of the law office that I will post later. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
UPDATE … 18 Aug 13 – I mistakenly identified this street as ” Spring Street ” when I posted this image back in June of 2011. It never really dawned on me that this was not Spring Street until the other day … Spring Street in one block over to the west. In the past, Baylen Street traffic was one way heading North and Spring Street was one way headed South. These streets were that way from the 1970’s until the late 2000’s, maybe 2008 or 9. As you can tell from this photo, the traffic flowed both north and south on Baylen Street back in the 1950’s by the way the cars are parked in the street. Thanks … Frank



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