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Another wonderful frame of sports promoter Jimmy Murdock’s Car, this time with Men’s Wrestling Promotion Signs. 1950’s. On the corner of Main Street and Beaver Street in downtown Jacksonville. This would pair nicely with this previously posted image printed large, framed and hung in a special place in your home or office. Just a thought…
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Unidentified body builders from the Loyd Sandgren collection of photographs. Anyone out there recognize any of the contestants?
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“This was the place that they checked trucks, many company’s had all their trucks inspected. This was in the middle 50’s.” LS
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An orange picker at work in the 1940’s. Ponce de Leon is credited with most likely planting the first orange trees around St. Augustine, Florida in the early to mid 1500’s. Citrus has been commercially grown in Florida since the early 1800’s with North Florida along the St. Johns River being the early hub of […]
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I can only guess that this is a civic organization giving sporting equipment to a youth group. Anyone recognize any of the folks in the photo?
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Two young pugilists duke it out in this undated photo from the Loyd Sandgren collection. The image appears to have been shot in the old armory building just North of Jacksonville’s downtown.
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“In 1947, I used the first portable Wabash speedlight, this proved to the bowlers that the light could stop the action of a strike. They said we will have to be in the picture before we believe it and this was the result. Note, light was not on the camera.” LS An excerpt from a […]
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Workers on the bottling line of the Jax Brewing Company production plant that was located on West 16th. Street in Jacksonville’s Durkeeville neighborhood. Jax Brewing Company was a local brewery that started production of Jax Beer in Jacksonville in 1913, refocused production to ice and near beer during prohibition and then restarted beer production in […]
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“Here two sailors getting ready for a days supply of 50 calibers. They would use 3 million rounds a day at the Yellow Water Gunnery School. Jacksonville, Florida. 1945” LS This was quite a complex in the 1940’s, one of three facilities in the United States used to train Navy gunners in all aspects of […]
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Sailors use their down time to play volleyball at Naval Station Mayport during the 1940’s. Loyd Sandgren was stationed there as the base photographer from 1942 to 1945.
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