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An aerial view of Jacksonville Beach looking West from over the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to a little help from the Beaches Museum & History Park we decided that this was from the late 1950’s or early 1960’s. It looks so underdeveloped and small compared to what it has become today and there is nothing on […]
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An aerial view of the decaying docks and warehouses along the North bank of the St. Johns River just East of the Main Street Bridge in downtown Jacksonville in the late 1940’s or early 1950’s. This was near the end of the city waterfront being a working waterfront as bulkheads and parking lots replaced wooden […]
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You can’t go wrong with fast jets and pretty girls in bathing suites (or is that fast cars?) but this late 1950’s image of a bathing beauty and a Florida Air National Guard F-80 Shooting Star jet makes a pretty good pairing. Loyd Sandgren did not leave any notes with this image but Ron Tittle […]
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Looking straight down on the Eastern side of downtown Jacksonville with Main Street being the top street running from one side of the frame to the other and Duval Street dividing the frame in half top to bottom. I’m guessing this is from the mid 1950’s although I can’t really see the cars to give […]
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“Here is an aerial photo of The Ponte Vedra Club on the beach, about ten miles South of Jacksonville Beach, FL. The club and beaches were owned by Stockton, Whatley and Davin. This picture was taken about 1947. A beautiful place and great food.” LS
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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 […]
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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…
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“Aerial photograph showing a portion of the business area of Jacksonville, Fla., on January 10, 1951. In the middle foreground opposite the tall St. Johns Apartment Building will be seen the site of the new Federal Reserve Branch Bank Building of Jacksonville, Florida, then under construction. You can see Hemming Park near the middle of […]
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