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A beautiful bride surrounded by her wedding gifts. It looks like she did pretty good! Unfortunately, as with most of the wedding photographs in the Loyd Sandgren collection, there were no notes with this image to identify the newlywed but if anyone can help put a name or location with this photograph, I would love […]
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“Bunny Yeager, a famous model and photographer, poses a model at Cypress Gardens, 1952. The background was painted, the sand was real. Hundreds of photographers were there for the program.” LS Bunny Yeager started out as a model then switched to being a photographer, gaining fame as the only female pin-up photographer of the 50’s. […]
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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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Bathing Beauty and Photographer on the beach by Virgil Deane. The print is showing a little age but the image is wonderful! Vintage Jacksonville recently received a packing box with hundreds of prints of photographs by Beaches photographer Virgil Deane from a Jacksonville resident who saved them from a trip to the dump when they […]
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A random image from one of Loyd Sandgren’s Theatre albums. This image is in the same category as the photo of a man balancing on a chair. I don’t know what it is about but I like it!
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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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