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Photographer William “Bill” Elsner with models and his Hasselblad camera at the groundbreaking of the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Jacksonville December 12, 1967. A graduate of Lee High School Elsner’s photographic career started in the military during W.W. II where he served as an aerial photographer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill during fighting in […]
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An unidentified model demonstrating a Beautyrest Adjust-A-Bed in a storefront window display in downtown Jacksonville. 1960’s.
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It seems like in the 1950’s and early 1960’s there was a beauty pageant for everything. There was no information with this particular photo but I was able to glean a little from some other photos that look like they came from the same shoot. This appears to be from a pageant sponsored by the […]
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Another photo of Ruthie Moore posing with the hydrangea wearing one of her outfits in Oriental Gardens. As stated in a previous post she shows up in a number of Loyd Sandgren’s photographs from the early 1950’s when she was in her teens.
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“The arena promoting golf at this time, notice the total prize money, $2,050 purse. This was in the year 1953. Also you could win the TV that projected the picture that was just like a big movie. A 10 foot screen. A combination three day ticket was $3.00.” LS The second annual Jacksonville Florida Women’s […]
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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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Jacksonville television station WFGA began broadcasting September 1, 1957 and was the first TV station in the country designed for color broadcasting. It was also a pioneer with the first “live camera” coverage of space launches at the Kennedy Space Center in 1958 and acted as the designated pool feed for all national TV networks. […]
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Women’s Wrestling in the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum. 1960’s.
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I have no doubt that there is a wonderful story behind this photograph by Loyd Sandgren but he left it up to us to fill it in. Any ideas?
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It obviously did not take much to draw a crowd. Jacksonville Beach, 1965.
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