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College Park Oral History Night with the Dann Family
ABOVE: Featured image 1949 photo of Carl Dann, Jr., son of the founder of Dusbdread Country Club at 549 West Par Street in Orlando, Florida.
College Park Oral History Night with the Dann Family sharing the life and story of Dubsdread...
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The Old Amway Arena Implosion
The old Amway Arena, also known as the O-rena and the TD Waterhouse Centre, was brought down in a controlled implosion around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 25, 2012.
Many memories were made at the venue since the grand opening in...
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Teen Time Capsule Project
ABOVE: Photo of Dani, a Library teen volunteer, taken on Saturday, May 19, 2012 as part of the Teen Time Capsule 2012 project.
The "Teen Time Capsule" project documents and contributes content to Orlando Memory that describes teen volunteer service in...
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Remembering Dorothy Lumley Melrose and the Melrose Family
Memories of Dorothy Lumley Melrose and the Melrose family are shared by some of the family's lifelong friends, including Alan Goforth, Richard Swann, Jane Newsom Beaty, Rodney Kincaid, Ron Strickler, Charlie Wells, and Cecil Moore. Recorded on April 16, 2012,...
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"The Meal" filmed in Winter Park 1974
Carl Betz and Dina Merrill starred in writer / director R. John Hughs' film "The Meal" filmed in a home in Winter Park in 1974.
On May 8, 1974, actor Carl Betz and actress Dina Merrill agreed to do a PSA...
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Sells Brothers' Circus - Orlando 13 November 1895
ABOVE: The November 1, 1895 edition of the South-Florida Sentinel includes the above advertisement for the Sells Brothers' Circus - "The Greatest Show on Earth," and an article written by the newspaper staff.
BIGGEST HOLIDAY EVER KNOWN IN THE HISTORY OF...
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Holocaust Survivor Helen Greenspun Visits Chmielnik, Poland
July 25, 2008, Heritage Florida Jewish News (Page 2) special on Holocaust survivor Helen Greenspun's journey from Orlando, FL to Chmielnik, Poland, her childhood home.
In 1942 German Nazis took Helen and her siblings Bela, Nsathan, Regina and Sonia from C...
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Holocaust Commemoration Day Reflections with Lawrence Kolin of Orlando
I come every year because I'm a...survivor. And so I come to pay my respects. And I wouldn't be here today if my family hadn't escaped. So, I'm always very solemn on this day and thankful that some folks in...
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Palm Sunday at Saint James Cathedral, 1984
Palm Sunday at St. James Cathedral 1984.
Photo of parishioners from St. James and St. Luke's Cathedral in the parking lot of Saint James Cathedral on Palm Sunday, April 15th 1984 in downtown Orlando.
The parishioners are waving palms for Palm Sunday,...
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Desegregation in Orange County Schools
Educator Mary Jane Sevick remembers the day her students cleared their lockers at Robinswood Junior High School in response to a court order to desegregate Carver and Robinswood Junior High Schools. Hear her firsthand account of the event and the...
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Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations!
ABOVE: 1980's photo of Joan and Bill Buning celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the Community Life Center at St. James Cathedral in downtown Orlando with Jim and Cathy Steiger their daughter and son in law.
Saint Patrick's Day celebrations in the...
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Physicist Benedetti Witnessed First Missile Shot at Cape Canaveral
ABOVE: September 4th, 2011 photo of Vincent and Arline Benedetti at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando.
Benedetti describes the clear warm day on July 24, 1950 when he and his colleagues from the Naval Research Lab were invited to the...
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