POINSETTIAS IN FLORIDA

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND A VERY
HAPPY NEW YEAR

I don't notice them any more but I had a neighbor in Miami that had a giant bush in her front garden for years.

Maybe they fell prey to Hurricanes I'm not sure.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Take a look.  I received this work of art in the mail the other day. 

It was sent to me for the Post Card Club I belong to. 

I have to find out more about Steve & Patty Howell.

This is spectacular don't you think?

                                         Best wishes to Steve & Patty

Where did they come up with all this material?  I have only recently started noticing how beautiful Christmas Seals are.  They have included 4 fantastic ones. One is dated 1931 one 1954 another 1960 and finally 0ne from 1970.  Also included 3 great Christmas usps stamps and a couple wonderful cancellations.  The card itself is a vintage Christmas Greeting card ca. 1920s.
Greeting on front:
MERRY CHRISTMAS
And if good wishes good can bring.
Mine are with you in everything.
Glad to share this with my club members and with you.

This is the first Christmas seal I came across and was captured by it. 
It is from 1927 and the artwork is by Maxfield Parrish.
I have a couple more now.

Here are two other Christmas seals I found
1941 & 1945





FABULOUS FLORIDA FAVORITES

FLORIDA FUN -- PICKING ORANGES

Remember when life used to be simple and so innocent?

HAPPY HOUR

NEW COCKTAIL LOUNGE AND BAR -- AIR CONDITIONED

HOTEL CASEY, SCRANTON, PA.

A link below to a great article on the Hotel Casey
from the Scranton Times, August, 26, 1909
http://www.scwhitegenealogy.com/kennedy/casey-hotel.html

VACANCY

PONCE DE LEON HOTEL

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA

Located at the intersection of Campbell Avenue and Commerce Street, within easy walking distance of business and shopping district and of theaters which accessibility is so desirable. Every street car and every highway route passing through the city run within two squares of the Ponce de Leon, 200 beautiful outside rooms, each with individual bath, circulating ice water and electric fan.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, Bought the Post Card

Fairyland Service Station

at the Entrance of Rock City Atop Lookout Mountain

The Incline railway up Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Ruby Falls, 145 Ft. High, 1120 Ft. Below Surface of Earth

Lookout Mountain Cave

 High Falls, Stone Face, Sky Bridge and Lovers Leap

SEE SEVEN STATES
TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY, VIRGINIA, N.CAROLINA, S.CAROLINA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA

Along the Enchanted Trail

1000 Ton Balanced Rock

Swing along Bridge

FAIRYLAND CAVERNS

UP, UP, & AWAY!

Come on along and visit with me the 1939 New York World's Fair.

The Aviation Building

Take a moment and follow the link below to the Aviation Building at the 1939 N.Y. World's Fair

http://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worlds_fair/wf_tour/zone-6/aviation.htm

A BITE TO EAT

El Patio

Columbia Spanish Restaurant

I never had a chance to go to the Columbia in Tampa.  I did go to the one in St. Augustine a couple of times.  It is really a pretty and nice place to eat, the food is terrific.  Check out their website link below.  If you go to the photo gallery on the site then click on the St. Augustine picture you can scroll down to the second CR dining room picture. The table the waitress is using the pepper mill was the table my brother and I sat at last September when we came through St. Augustine.

http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, Bought the Post Card

"The Mittens" in Monument Valley

I have to say I have been lucky enough to have been in the Valley twice.  It is absolutely incredible.  It is truly a spiritual spot.  You can just feel it in your heart.  It is overwhelming  and hard to belive you are not dreaming.  The location is right in the middle of nowhere on the Arizona, Utah state line. The first time I visited there was a nice visitor facility.  It is a fantastic drive through the valley.  The light, the color, the clouds, the wind, the sounds, it is almost surrealistic to experience.  The second time I went through the Valley there was a Navajo wedding taking place.  That was a special time with so many interesting things taking place.  The native dress, the horses, the wagons, the music, all amazing.  

I did get to see him make his traditional ride

to the point when I was in 

MONUMENT VALLEY

The second time I visited the visitor center was closed and I wondered what was to become of the tourist trade.  That must have been just prior to the construction of the View Hotel.  I sure would love to go back and stay for Sunrise.  Sunset was marvelous.

FABULOUS FLORIDA FAVORITES

Bananas in Sunken Gardens

St. Petersburg, Fla.

"The Sunshine City"

"What?"

"I thought everyone climbed ladders and picked bananas in their High Heels."

"Don't you?"

A BITE TO EAT

BROWN DERBY,  LOS ANGELES

Text from Wikipedia

Opened in 1926, the original restaurant at 3427 Wilshire Boulevard remains the most famous due to its distinctive shape. Whimsical architecture was popular at the time, and the restaurant was designed to catch the eye of passing motorists. It is said that the shape of the hat worn by New York governor and 1928 Democratic Party presidential candidate Al Smith, a personal friend of Somborn, was an inspiration. Another theory claims that Somborn was told that a good restaurateur could serve food out of a hat and still make a success of it. 

The small cafe, close to popular Hollywood hot spots such as Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel, became successful enough to warrant the building of a second branch.

               

Despite its less distinctive Spanish Mission style facade, the second Brown Derby, which opened on Valentine's Day 1929 at 1628 North Vine Street in Hollywood, was the branch that played the greater part in Hollywood history. Due to its proximity to movie studios, it became the place to do deals and be seen. Clark Gable is said to have proposed to Carole Lombard there. Rival gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper are recorded as regular patrons.
In "L.A. at Last," the first of the Hollywood episodes of I Love Lucy, Lucy (Lucille Ball), Ethel (Vivian Vance), and Fred (William Frawley) have lunch at the Brown Derby. During the misadventure, the trio dines in a booth with Eve Arden on one side and William Holden on the other. This leads to the famous disaster scene in which Lucy inadvertently causes a waiter to hit Holden in the face with a pie.

The third Brown Derby, built in 1931 at 9537 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills, greatly resembled the Hollywood branch. It was closed in the early 1980s and demolished in 1983.

The Los Feliz Brown Derby at 4500 Los Feliz Blvd is the last remaining branch of the chain still extant and in operation. Film mogul Cecil B. De Mille, a part owner of the Wilshire Blvd. restaurant, bought the building, a former chicken restaurant named Willard's, and converted it into a Brown Derby in 1940. It uniquely combined a formal restaurant with a dramatic domed ceiling with a more casual drive-in cafe outside.



Royalty in Florida

The Tomb of Prince and Princess Murat, Tallahassee, Florida

Prince Achille Murat was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Princess Catherine Willis Murat was the great grandniece of George Washington.

Follow link to a brief history of The Prince and Princess in Florida
http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/c_princemurat.html

UP, UP, & AWAY!

PAN AMERICAN AIRPORT.  COCONUT GROVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA

Pan-American International Airways Terminal

Interior Pan-American Airways Terminal
Miami, Florida

32 Passenger "Flying Clipper Ship"

Off to West Indies and South America from Miami

         A link of interest below:
           http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/pam.htm

VACANCY

McGriff Motor Court

On U.S. 17 -- 3 Miles Soouth of

Brunswick, Ga.

    FIREPROOF

Found a great VACANCY sign while surfing the internet.

ALCATRAZ

Having a wonderful time . . .

Wish you were here

I know it's not linen.  Just thought this was a cute card.  And the "Wish you were here" fits just perfectly.  Have a "wonderful" weekend.  Enjoy the Season.

FABULOUS FLORIDA FAVORITES

WONDER HOUSE, BARTOW, FLORIDA

Interesting-Instructive-Inspiring

This house, thirteen years under construction and still unfinished, combines many sensational features of modern house construction for comfort and convenience.  Packed full of unique ideas and step-saving devices.   Beautiful hand-laid tile work and landscaping add much interest to the building.  A surprise at every turn.

Conrad Schuck was the 49-year-old owner of a building supply company in Pittsburgh when his doctor told him he had roughly one year to live. He might live a few months longer, his doctor said, if he moved to a warmer climate.

Thirteen years later, Schuck was still working on his 'Wonder House,' a four-story, 5,300-square-foot mansion on Mann Road in Bartow. The intriguing 18-room structure, which Schuck opened to the public in 1934, served as a local tourist attraction for roughly 30 years.

Read the full story of the Wonder House

in the Polk County News "The Ledger.com"

http://www.theledger.com/article/20081115/COLUMNISTS/811150267

A BITE TO EAT

PADDY'S CLAM HOUSE

$2.55 five-course lobster dinner on Sundays. 

 

Just had a delicious meal at Paddy's Clam House, 215 West 34th St. Quite a busy place. Imagine serving between 2,000 and 3,000 customers daily! Fish, Shellfish and French fries as we love it - at the most reasonable prices. The whole broiled Lobster is the talk of the town. Paddy has asked me to invite you to drop in when you come to New York City.
 
Information below reposted from "Old and Sold Antiques Auction and marketplace" website. Information originally published in an article titled New York City - Around the world in 80 Dinners, in 1959.
   
Paddy's Clam House, 215 W. 34th St., is one of the largest and oldest seafood establishments in New York. Paddy (Joseph Patrick) White opened his first clam house in the Bronx more than 60 years ago and moved to the present location 26 years ago. He is now 80 and engaged in writing a book to be titled Eat Fish, Live Longer. Paddy, born in Philadelphia, learned his trade at the oyster bar of Delmonico's. He still maintains that Lorenzo Delmonico was the greatest restaurateur of all time. Paddy established a record 59 years ago for opening clams—100 in 3 minutes, 20 seconds—and claims this record has never been beaten. Today, his West 34th St. restaurant serves i,000 people daily; disposes of 5,000 lobsters, 50 bushels of shellfish and 1,700 pounds of fish per week. The restaurant features wooden-topped tables and makes no pretentions to elegant service or appointments. And, Paddy boasts, people stand in line for his $2.55 five-course lobster dinner on Sundays. Paddy is an avid fight fan, has known all the champs, and used to travel around the country to catch all the big fights of the past half century.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, Bought the Post Card

I didn't know wheather to use this card in "Up, Up, and Away!" or here in the new posts of places I have enjoyed visiting.
                Along the way of  TWA . . .

U.S. CAPITOL
Washington, D.C.
The great white marble Capitol, with its lofty dome modelled after St Peter's in Rome, overlooks the Mall in the heart of Washington, one of the world capitals served by TWA.
TWA
Trans World Airlines
U.S.A. - EUROPE
AFRICA - ASIA
Take a virtual tour of the U.S. Capitol Building by clicking the link below.
Trust me you will not want to miss this.  It is amazing.
http://www.aoc.gov/virtual-tours/capitolbldg/tourfiles/index.html

Was in the Capital city last summer.  Hadn't been there in many years.  It was a fantastic trip.  Spent days and days in the museums of the Smithsonian.  Didn't remember how really beautiful our nation's capital is.  We will spend more time in D.C. later.  I have to do some searching and scanning before our visit.

SLOWLY I TURNED, step by step, inch by inch

The Home of NATIONAL BISCUIT,
SHREDDED WHEAT,
At NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.


We have had a great visit at "Niagara Falls"
"Slowly I turned step by step inch by inch"
I will leave you with these final images and a Fantastic Clip of Marilyn in NIAGARA

CAVE OF THE WINDS, NIAGARA FALLS



                                NIAGARA with MARILYN MONROE

                                   CAVE OF THE WINDS      AMERICAN FALLS                                         



VACANCY

STATE LINE SERVICE

127 Miles West of

Salt Lake, Utah

100% Air-Conditioned



NEVADA STATE LINE
IN NEVADA . . .
WENDOVER, UTAH

--On Route 40 and 50--   
110Miles East of Elko, Nevada
120 Miles Northeast of Ely, Nevada 
400 Miles East of Reno, Nevada

New ultra-modern hotel, cafe, bar, and casino... Air conditioned 100% in summer... Steam heated in winter... Standard oil products and service... Cabins in connection...
The gateway to the greatest racing and bombing field in the world -- On the edge of the great Salt Lake desert.