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A Gator Bowl Queen from the 1950’s. I’m sure someone out there knows the name of these lovely ladies and would like to share them with the rest of us. I spoke with Gator Bowl Association President and CEO Rick Catlett about the history of the Gator Bowl queens. The game dates back to 1946 […]
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A promotional photo from a play production at the Little Theatre in San Marco. According to Loyd Sandgren’s notes he shot most of the promotional photos for the Little Theatre during the 1950’s. There are two albums full of these images in the Loyd Sandgren collection, a few have some names hand written on the […]
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As a commercial photographer Loyd Sandgren took on the full spectrum of paying jobs to survive including shooting weddings. There are over a dozen albums full of random and anonymous photos from wedding shoots spanning the late 1940’s through the 1960’s in the Loyd Sandgren Collection. These are only the prints that survived so there […]
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A contact print from a pair of 4×5 negatives of a burlesque dancer shot in Loyd Sandgren’s studio. No information was attached to this print but another more clothed photograph of the same woman is in the collection with a note identifying her as a stripper. This print was found in an album of Loyd’s […]
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“These two girls first names were the same “Betty”. They are shown here in Oriental Gardens, a tourist attraction for many years. I used them in many of my pictures.” LS What started out as a botanical collector’s location to plant his expanding accumulation of greenery in the 1920’s became Jacksonville’s prime attraction from the […]
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An unidentified belly dancer in an unknown club. One of two photographs taken in the same establishment from an album of Loyd Sandgren’s titled simply “Girls.” Shot in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s. Very hip looking integrated crowd. The psychedelic posters on the walls add so much to the decor.
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Studio photograph of bathing suit clad woman with a large stick. Perhaps this was shot as an advertising photograph but the photographer left no information with this particular image.
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This is a portion of a contact sheet from what appears to have been a photographers outing to photograph the burlesque performer Betty Howard during a performance and back stage at an unknown club in Jacksonville. The top left frame shows a group of photographers and in several of the other frames you can see […]
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Another one of Loyd Sandgren’s bathing beauty photographs. There was no information with this image but it sure makes me wish I was at the beach.
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A women’s wrestling match inside what looks like the old Arena located at Main Street and Beaver Street. There are a good number of sailors in their dress white uniforms mixed in with the local crowd in the stands. Great banners and flags hanging from the rafters including a 48 star United States flag which […]
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