Posts Tagged ‘Florida Memory Project’
Pensacola Fire Department …
This is in the square at Palafox and Government Streets sometime back in the 1920’s. That is the Escambia County Courthouse in the background. Look at the facial expressions on the fire fighters … also look at all of the activity in the background. Everyone is busy and going someplace. Even though this is a black and white image ( toned actually ) it seems that black or some dark color is the predominant color for suits, dresses and cars back in the 1920’s. As usual I have no clue who any of the fire fighters are or what they are doing, but it doesn’t matter. Here is one more from a different direction …
Here you see the TT Wentworth Museum in the background, that at one time used to be the Pensacola City Hall. Even I can remember going down to the City Hall back in the late 1960’s and up into the 1970’s and doing business there. So it must have been in use up until the new City Hall down on Main Street was built back in the 1980’s. I have some photos that I took when they were building the new City Hall over on my other blog that I have showing my photography. If anyone knows anything about either of these two photographs, please feel free to comment. Thanks again for looking and please check back … Frank
Everglades On The Bay …
The Everglades Hotel on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami was built back in the 1920’s. It was finished in 1926, several months before the famous hurricane of 1926 that demolished a lot of South Florida from the Keys to Miami. I have seen several shows on this hurricane on the Florida Public Broadcasting Channel that have been very interesting. I have posted other photos from Miami and Miami Beach that my father had taken, but just ran across this negative the other day. The hotel was demolished back on January 23, 2007 and there are videos on YouTube showing the demolition if you are interested. If anyone has any stories that they want to share of their stay at the Everglades Hotel, we would love to hear them. I still have more negatives of Miami to scan and post, so please check back. Thanks again for looking and check back …. Frank
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