Collectible Postcards, Regional Studies - Southern U.S., Florida - State & Local History

Greetings from Florida

Name: Greetings from Florida
Author: Donald D. Spencer
ISBN: 9780892183340

by Donald D. Spencer

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Overview

See Florida as you have never seen it before - from Pensecola to Jacksonville, from St. Augustine to Miami. Without leaving home, let Donald Spencer lead you on an armchair trip through time and place with this gathering of more than 490 vintage picture postcards.

Tour all of Florida's areas, from timberland cities of the Panhandle to the water surrounded islands of the Keys. See how Florida's towns and cities looked before you were born. Stop at the grand Farms, Parrot Jungle, Sea-Zoo, Silver Springs and Weeki Wachee. Pay tribute to famous Florida people from Juan Ponce de Leon to Henry Plant, from Henry Flagler to Ernest Hemingway.

Return to Tampa's cigar factories when they were one of the city's major industries. See Main Street in Fort Lauderdale without a single automobile. Stop at the oldest fork in the United States, or spend the night in Henry Plant's beautiful Belleview Hotel. Watch a Seminole Indian wrestle and alligator, or see people catching a train in Green Cove Springs. Enjoy a day at Florida beaches before they were invaded by sun worshippers. See what a 45-foot, 30, 000-pound whale shark looks like, or spend an afternoon watching workers pick strawberries.

See Floridians at work and play, at school and worship. Visit the country's oldest schoolhouse in St. Augustine, or see the beach racing cars that broke world speeding records. See a primitive river ferry or view the awesome steamboats that plied Florida's rivers a century ago. Smile at the heavy woolen bathing suit your grandmother wore when she went to play in the surf at Ormond Beach.

In short, here is everything you think of when you think Florida - from alligators, beaches, fishing and Jao Alai to water skiing, historical forts, spacecraft and oranges.

These are picture postcards your parents and grandparents mailed home as they traveled across this historic and scenic wonderland called Florida. Many are the only existing pictures of places long gone and times nearly forgotten. Here, then, is a feast for the eyes, the memory, and the imagination of every Floridian.