Notice the pine rocklands with their scrubby South Dade pine in the background. Since it doesn’t look like anything along the Tamiami Trail, I’m willing to guess this is the Musa Isle Seminole Village along the Miami River, a tourist attraction that was around until the 1960s.
Savage reptiles! Knighthood! Dragons! Alligator wrestling! Here’s the Alligator Farm I remember from my youth …footage from the Wolfsonian archives.
Historic sponging boat in Apalachicola
It’s dowtown Apalachicola and one of the old fishing boats displayed near the water. Swampy is posing in between the fence pickets.
This is as new as we’ll probably get. This is Swampy visiting the not even a month old ‘Muscle Car City in Punta Gorda. What makes this a bit more historic is that it’s in a building that’s 25 years old, an old Wal-Mart. The volumes of these dinosaurs that dot the state is hefty. Here someone makes an excellent use of one of the very early Wal-Marts that came into the state. The design of the older Wal-Marts really works better for this usage than the newer ones.
The older ones had a small restaurant at the entrance. This one makes use of the space for a nifty 50s diner.
The place is stocked with vehicles, over 150 of them. Including, below, not a stranger to Florida is Miss Budwiser, a staple of Cypress Gardens. Further below are images of parts of the showroom.
Here is the cover from the visitors guide from 30 years ago. Below is a page from inside the publication.
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