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Ray Charles playing saxophone with Jacksonville promoter Ken Knight during a concert in 1960. Everyone knows about Ray Charles’ Jacksonville connection, attending the School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine and hanging around the music clubs in Jacksonville’s La Villa neighborhood in his youth but Ken Knight has a prominent place in […]
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Bob Hope signing autographs at the old Imeson Airport on Jacksonville’s Northside, 1948. Love the old United Airlines prop plane (looks like a 4 engine DC-6 to me) in the background. Don’t know if this photo in an earlier post was from the same visit or not.
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“Eddie Graham, weight 240lbs. and his wrestling partner Haystacks Calhoun, weight about 603 lbs. One night we went out to Beach Road Chicken Dinners and Haystacks ate 20 chickens. In fact TV 4 came out and took some pictures of him with all the chicken bones about 15 inches high. We went out to 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, […]
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James R. Stockton Sr. in front of a portrait of his father Telfair Stockton, seated at his desk in the old Atlantic Bank Building in downtown Jacksonville in the early 1950’s. Telfair Stockton founded Telfair Stockton and Co. in the late 1800’s and played a major role in establishing Jacksonville as a port city. […]
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“Carl Hubbell, one of the greatest pitchers of all time in the National League. Here he is pictured at Hope Haven Hospital signing autographs. This was in 1949.” LS Carl Owen Hubbell, played 16 seasons (1928 to 1943) as a pitcher for the New York Giants. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame […]
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White protest march dated March 22, 1965 on the city parking lot near the location where the Jacksonville Landing now stands. Warren Folks is leading the march with a sign that reads ‘This Small White March is in Protest of the Big Black March in Alabama’. This would have been three days before the approximately […]
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Born in Jacksonville June 1, 1934 Charles Eugene Boone, better known as Pat Boone became one of the most popular singing acts of the 1950’s. His early career was built on singing R&B covers by black artists but he later became known as a gospel singer. (Trivia: He was also a one time neighbor of […]
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“This is what was left of Adolph Hitler’s yacht. People took parts of it for souvenirs, and someone started a fire and this hull was what was left.” LS Typed on back of the print “This is to certify that these pictures were taken Wednesday, August 30, 1950, approximately 2:30 P.M. to 3:30 P.M. by–Loyd […]
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“A great model and beautiful, her name, Connie Hines. She later won the big prize in New York on the $64,000 game show. Because of that she got a contract in the movies. She appeared in the TV series Mr. Ed. She was the wife on that show. She was in many movies.” LS Hines […]
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