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Missionary Computer Fellowship
Missionary Computer Fellowship is featured in the book: Presbyterians: a spiritual journey by Dirk Wierenga.
Missionary Computer Fellowship volunteers include Orlando residents John Tracy, Bob Smith, Lloyd Riffe, and Walter Trippe who volunteer at the ...
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All Souls Catholic School
All Souls Catholic School celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the school in 1954.
The school was founded during the pastorate of Father Richard Lyons after a fund raising campaign netted the money to purchase the property adjacent to...
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Orlando General Hospital
Founded in 1941 as Orlando Osteopathic Hospital, Orlando General Hospital was once a 15-bed facility that was a large, converted house located at 603 East Hillcrest Street. The above photo by John Markham IV, is an image of the hospital...
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Orlando Public Library - Library Square Proposal
The design for Library Square was part of the Orlando Central City plan (pages 24-25). It includes a summary on Library Square and a number of photos.
To help you get your bearings, the far left corner is the intersection of...
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Rosie O'Grady's Good Time Jazz Band
Bill Allred said that Bob Snow told him, "to put together the most fantastic super-duper Dixieland Band this area has ever seen or heard."
If you could listen to these record albums, you'd agree that he did just that!
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Saint Michael's Episcopal Church
ABOVE PHOTO: Easter Sunday morning service at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Orlando's historic College Park neighborhood.
The lovely family church nestled beneath the pines at 2499 North Westmoreland Drive has a strong history of educating and guiding f...
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La Coterie Club
La Coterie was a club formed of couples from the First United Methodist Church, Orlando Florida. They built a clubhouse on two lots adjacent to Lake Conway, land given to them by "Aunt Molly" Randall.
The Coterie Club held a housewarming...
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Pilot Club of Orlando, Florida
Pilot Club International
Pilot International was founded as a professional women's organization on October 18, 1921 in Macon, Georgia.
"Organized and developed by a representative group of business and professional women in Macon, the name Pilot Club Interna...
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Telephone Reference Service Then and Now
ABOVE: Monika Cooper at her computer in Questline 1990s.
Telephone Reference Service - The Albertson Public Library
An article by George Butler published in the Orlando Morning Sentinel in December 1949 mentions telephone reference service provided by librar...
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United Mine Workers Union
The United Mine Workers attempted to unionize Taxi drivers in Orlando in May 1949. An article from the Orlando Post published Friday, May 20, 1949, calls for those on strike to stop the violence towards non-striking Taxi drivers, their managers...
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Friends of the Library Association - Organized March 1949
In the beginning
The 1973 history of the Friends of the Library (above) records the beginnings of the group.
Due to the enthusiastic efforts of Zonta Club, the Friends of the Library of Orlando came into being in 1949. The Winter Park-Orlando...
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Bookmobiles, Traveling Branches and Library Stations
ABOVE: The Orlando Public Library Traveling Branch and County Bookmobile in front of the 1966 Orlando Public Library.
A Bookmobile for the Library
A proposal for the addition of a bookmobile was presented to the board of the Albertson Public Library by...
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