13 Sep 2011
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Newly cleared of docks and warehouses jutting into the river from Jacksonville’s Northbank along the St. Johns River the 1950’s waterfront now featured a seawall, fill and a fresh asphalt to create a parking lot just South of the Main Street Bridge. The Jacksonville Landing now occupies part of this property.
02 Aug 2011
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Looking South East through downtown Jacksonville in the 1950’s. About the only thing still in this photo today is the Main Street Bridge. Lower left is the old Union Bus Station. The light colored 4 story building housed Muntz TV on the ground floor. Across the river behind the bridge is the Gibbs Shipyard. Almost […]
22 Jul 2011
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“Another view of the Jacksonville Skyline from the Gibbs Shipyard on the Southside. I waited for the bridge to go up to get this unusual view. 8X10 Camera. 1950’s.” LS
15 Jul 2011
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Mayport Naval Station during WWII, dirt roads, what look like graded runways, lots of sand and scrub. Just a handful of buildings near the West edge of the basin. Loyd Sandgren served as the Navy Base’s photographer from 1942 to 1945 when according to what he told me, there was just a dirt road leading […]
05 Jul 2011
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“The picture was taken for the Borum Boat Co. at The Lobster House. Notice the fins on the Boat. It was 1959. This as you can see was taken at night.” LS The Lobster House restaurant came into being in 1944 on the Southbank of the St. Johns River in a building that used to […]
03 Mar 2011
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Another of the many skyline views from the Loyd Sandgren photography collection. Late 1940’s. The St Johns river was still a working waterfront on both banks near downtown.
28 Feb 2011
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Looking North towards downtown Jacksonville from over San Marco. Late 1940’s. Notice the cleared field where the original Prudential Building and Baptist Hospital were later built. No I-95 overpass complex. Things have changed a bit in the years since then…
22 Feb 2011
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View looking North across the St Johns River from the Southbank just East of the Main Street bridge. Approximately late 1940’s to early 1950’s.
13 Dec 2010
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Variations on a girl with a fishing rod shot on 4X5 film on the Southbank of the St. Johns River in the 1950’s. The life ring identifies the location as the old Lobster House restaurant. This is one of hundreds of contact sheets in the Loyd Sandgren Collection. No information on the identity of the […]
09 Dec 2010
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The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad building reflecting on the almost glassy St. Johns River not long after it opened in the early 1960’s. It is now known as the CSX building.