Frank Hardy Made My Photographs Two

Here are several transparencies that I ran across recently from our trips to South Florida in the 1950’s and 60’s.  The first one is of one of the Mermaids from Weeki Wachee Springs.  Here  is a link to the Springs web site.  The place has an interesting history and it is still around today.  This is one of the mermaids that my father made in the under-sea theater on Kodachrome back in 1958 …

The next is an exterior of Bok Tower at Bok Tower Gardens …

And here is a link to the Bok Tower Gardens web site.  I had forgotten that this is the highest point in Florida at 298 feet.  Bok Tower is in Lake Wales Florida and I am sure that it has been fifty years since I have been to the Tower and Gardens.  I have been busy these past few weeks and have not had a chance to post much, but I have several ready to go and will get them up in the next few weeks.  One is on the fire back in 1975 that burnt the block down that my father’s studio was in on 12th Avenue.  The others are just random photos that I have scanned.  So please check back in the next several weeks.  If anyone remembers going to Weeki Wachee and seeing the Mermaids, feel free to comment … If any of you guys ever met and married a Weeki Wachee Mermaid, that is a story everyone would be dying to hear!  Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank