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 model.
Tags: contact sheet, fishing, model, St. Johns River, women
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.
Tags: 001528, Atlantic Coast Line, CSX, downtown, Railroad, reflection, St. Johns River
No Nike’s here. They were cool before they knew it was cool to wear Chuck Taylor All-Stars.
“This is the tall and the short of it, two youngsters looking up to the 7 foot 4 inch Miami basketball player. This was taken in the Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. 1962.” LS
Tags: basketball, children, coliseum, sports, University of Miami
According to the tag on the bus this was 1953 but I’ll leave Loyd’s note as he wrote it.
“This is the way the old Greyhound bus station looked like in the late 1940’s. The terminal was on Bay and Hogan Streets where Sears built their downtown store. They look a lot smaller than they do today, no restrooms either. It was transportation though, and it was pretty good.” LS
Tags: bus, downtown, Greyhound, transportation
No information attached to the original print but it looks like it was in the Jacksonville Coliseum in the early 1960’s. One of many professional wrestling photos in the Loyd Sandgren collection.
Tags: coliseum, midget, professional wrestling, sports, wrestling
1961 12 Hours of Sebring race. With the help of Bill Warner, the Founder of The Amelia Island Concours D’Elegance we pieced together a little information about this particular car. It is a Porsche RS61 driven by Bob Holbert and Roger Penske for Hubert Brundage/Brumos Racing of Jacksonville. It finished 5th. overall in the race and first in the sports class under 1600 cc, completing 199 laps. The cars that finished ahead of it were all Ferraris.
As a side note, Bill was also at this race, and at the time in his late teens. Bill also photographed the same car with his “Trusty Yashica D.” The photo below is Bill’s take on the same car in the pits at Sebring.
At the risk of getting too auto geeky with all of this I wanted to take this one more step. Only 14 of these cars were ever made by Porsche, all between 1961 and 1963. One sold at auction at The Amelia Island Concours D’Elegance in March of 2010 to legendary race car driver Sir. Sterling Moss. The final auction price, $1.7 million dollars. That is one nice car…
(Note: I’ve seen conflicting dates in quite a few sources on the year this car won at Sebring. I’ve gone with 1961 but I’ve also seen 1960 listed.)
An update from Bill Warner, “The Porsche that won Sebring in 1960 was the factory RS60. A Brumos RS60 finished second. Different cars from 1961”. Thank you Bill for the clarification.
1950’s view of the downtown Jacksonville waterfront and skyline. This photo was shot from the raised span of the Main Street Bridge.
Tags: 012571, downtown, historic photogaph, main street bridge, riverfront, skyline, vintage photography
Undated photo of Female Roller Derby in the Jacksonville Coliseum.
Tags: coliseum, roller derby, skates, women
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