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“This is a picture of the San Marco Theatre.  Local artists were showing off their paintings, in celebration of the movie.  Charles Laughton in “Rembrandt”.  The 60’s?” LS I find it interesting that they were showing a movie from 1936 in the 1960’s in Jacksonville.

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An orange picker at work in the 1940’s.  Ponce de Leon is credited with most likely planting the first orange trees around St. Augustine, Florida in the early to mid 1500’s.  Citrus has been commercially grown in Florida since the early 1800’s with North Florida along the St. Johns River being the early hub of […]

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“The day that Lou Bono’s Bar-B-Que opened up on 4907 Beach Blvd.  I remember what Lou said that day, “I paid too much for that land, it was $75.00 a front foot, I guess I’ve lost all my money.”  Today that property is worth $2,000 a front foot.  O yes, that was 750 feet deep, […]

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Looks like a 50’s era convenience store but I can’t find any signage with the business name.  It is across the street from an A&P Food Store.  I’d say they were really pushing the Lucky Strike cigarette brand!

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One of the later downtown views found in the Loyd Sandgren collection showing the St. James building which housed the May-Cohens department store, behind that is the Ivey’s department store and the newly finished Cathedral Towers stand in the background.  The Art Deco Western Union building was still a mixed use office building and palm […]

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Unidentified model atop a 1950’s vintage Pontiac at what looks like a car show.  I can’t figure out the location but I’m sure someone out there will recognize the distinctive tile work on the stairway.  Let me know if you figure it out. (Update)  Thank you to the Vintage Jacksonville fans who were quick to […]

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“This shows how the boat could sleep six. Of course you could not be too big and do that.  It pays to be young.” LS This is one of many photos Loyd Sandgren shot for Jacksonville’s Borum Boat Company.

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Remington Rand’s San Marco Blvd. window display in the early 1950’s advertising it’s new data storage technology Film-A-Record.  This technology made film based copies of printed documents to reduce record storage space (think microfilm at the library).  The poster at the right of the image shows 160 four drawer file cabinets full of documents that […]

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Workers from the Huckins Yacht Corporation roll the Mystic VIII from their workshop off Jacksonville’s Lakeshore Blvd. to launch it in the Ortega River.  This 60 foot Atlantic model was ordered from Huckins in 1956 by Philip R. Mallory and delivered in 1957. Mallory started the P.R. Mallory Company in 1916 which began as a […]

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The window display at the Lane-Rexall for country music artist Eddy Arnold’s upcoming shows at Jacksonville’s Palace Theatre.  born in 1918 the Nashville sound singer had 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts and sold over 85 million records. He started his performing career in the 1930’s and gave his final concert in 1999, […]