Year: 2016
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Pulse Memorial Paver Garden - Orlando Health
49 pavers with the names of the 49 lives lost on June 12, 2016 at the Pulse Nightclub circle the entrance of Lake Beauty Park at Orlando Health.
"Orlando Health has unveiled their Memorial Paver Garden on the shore of Lake...
Events
Six-Month Remembrance of the Pulse Nightclub Tragedy
December 12, 2016 marked the six-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub tragedy which took 49 lives and injured 68 people. The Orange County Regional History Center hosted a special event with community leaders, local singers, and community members paying ...
People
George Alland: I Remember: Reflections of Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust
Holocaust survivor George Alland speaking at The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida in Maitland, December 11, 2016.
This is the last program in the 2016 Holocaust Center series entitled, I Remember: Reflections of Eyewitnesses to th...
Events
Come Out With Pride Parade
The annual Orlando Pride Parade in downtown Orlando.
The Orlando Pride Parade was led by the color guard.
Forty-nine angel kites representing the forty-nine victims of the Pulse shooting were flown at the 2016 Come Out With Pride Parade.
A...
People
Maury L. Carter
Above: Maury L. Carter and his son, Daryl Carter, featured in Florida Trend, July 1991.
Maury Carter, born in Ferrum, Virginia. My dad was a farmer and a carpenter. We had a small farm, 100 acre farm in Virginia not far from Roanoke....
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Orlando - The Charm of the South
"Orlando - The Charm of the South" appears to be a promotional brochure created to encourage real estate purchase and home building in Orlando for permanent and winter residents.
It includes a map of the county and city published by the South Florida Sen...
People
Oral History Interview with Thomas Brogden Tart
The image featured above is of Florida leaders Tom Tart and Ron Blocker celebrating Library Snapshot Day 2014 at the Orlando Public Library.
Thomas Tart, a fifth generation Floridian, received the University of Florida's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a...
People
Oral History Interview with Former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court Charles T. Wells
Featured image above: Orlando Attorney Charles T. Wells
I'm Charles Talley Wells and I go by Charley with an "ey" and I was born on March the 4th, 1939 in what was then known as the Orange Memorial Hospital in Orlando....
Places
Orlando Youth Center
Dedicated on July 13, 1958, the Orlando Youth Center used to be the scene of teen activity for the Orlando crowd in the days before Disney.
Soon to be the new home of the Orlando Ballet, the Loch Haven Community Center,...
Organizations
Hot Diggity Drive-In & Restaurant
The Hot Diggity Drive-In Restaurant was a short lived food establishment overlooking Lake Barton. It first appears in the November 1956 telephone directory, but there was not a listing in the Yellow Pages. The address at that time was 5053...
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Oral History Interview with Paul Halyard
I'm Paul Halyard and I was born in St. Petersburg, FL in 1935 and I moved to Orlando February 1, 1964. After completing the University of Florida I was living in Gainesville and working at Sperry Electronic Tube Department when...
People
Oral History Interview with Donovan Dean
I'm Patrick Donovan Dean born here in Orlando General Hospital 28 September '39. I was born here, but during the war my folks moved to Lakeland. My father, Donovan Dean, was an architect, and became the base engineer for the...