Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (653-656)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (653-656): All of the photos in this set were taken in June 1957 according to dates hand written on the slides. These were all taken in Marineland, Florida which is just south of St. Augustine.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (645-648)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (645-648): All of the photos in this set were taken in June 1957 according to dates hand written on the slides. All of these photos appear to continue from the previous few sets and were taken at a place called Africa-U.S.A. This was an African wildlife tourist attraction located in Boca Raton, Florida on 300 acres near U.S. 1. It was open from 1953 until 1961.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (641-644)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (641-644) | PeakD: All of the photos in this set were taken circa June 1957 as that was when this film was processed based on the dates stamped on the slides. All of these photos appear to continue from the previous few sets and were taken at a place called Africa-U.S.A.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (629-632)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (629-632): This photo appears to be a continuation of the last several sets of photos taken in a place called Storyland in Pompano Beach, Florida. This looks like a kind of go cart ride not too different than something like Tomorrowland Speedway at Disney World except that at Disney you have a rail in the center that keeps you from deviating too far from the center of the track.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (621-624)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (621-624): All of the photos in this set were taken in Florida in the Spring of 1957. They were processed in June 1957 based on the dates stamped on the slides.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (617-620)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (617-620): All of the photos in this set were taken in April 1956 as indicated by handwritten dates on the slides. These were all taken in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (609-612)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (609-612): All of the photos in this set were taken circa June 1957 as that was when this film was processed based on the dates stamped on them. These were all taken in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (585-588)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (585-588): All of the photos in this set were taken in April 1956 as indicated by handwritten dates on the slides and they were all taken in Florida.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (577-580)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (577-580): This photo was taken at Juniper Springs in April 1956.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (573-576)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (573-576): This photo was taken in Ponce De Leon Springs in Deland, Florida in 1956.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (569-572)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (569-572) : This unique statue is located in Ponce de Leon Springs in DeLand, Florida.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (565-568)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (565-568): I can find no reference to the Hafford Trail but the "headwaters of the Suwannee River" would be the Okefenokee Swamp, near Fargo, Georgia. From there, the Suwannee River meanders into North Florida. See the link above for more photos from this set.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (513-516) | PeakD

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (513-516): This photo was taken in Miami. It looks like it was taken in a park looking towards the Columbus Hotel. This hotel had a restaurant at the top called Top of the Columbus that overlooked Miami and Biscayne Bay. This hotel was built in 1926 but demolished in 1988

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (373-376)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (373-376): These photos were all taken in Florida circa 1959.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (349-352)

Map of Florida in 1959. See more: Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (349-352)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (345-348)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (345-348): This photo features part of a water skiing show that used to be done at Cypress Gardens. These shows continued up until a year or two ago when they were finally ended.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (329-332)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (329-332) : This photo shows the site of a future housing development in Pompano Beach, Florida connected to the Intracoastal Waterway. I bet prices were a lot cheaper in 1959...

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (321-324)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (321-324): All of the photos in this set were likely taken circa 1959 in Kentucky and Florida.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (317-320)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (317-320) | PeakD: Except for one, all of the photos in this set were taken at Cypress Gardens near Tampa in Florida which is now a Legoland.

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (313-316)

Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (313-316): The last photo was taken at Cypress Gardens in Florida and features a water skiing show that occurred on a regular basis up until very recently.