• The stories of orlando

    Orlando Memory is a community focused digital collection of local heritage and traditions. Explore Central Florida’s history with stories, photos, documents, videos, and more.

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    Oral History Interview with Gaming Entrepreneur Rupert Meghnot, Founder of OrlandoPreneur
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    Oral History Interview with Shirley Cannon, Pine Castle Woman's Club President Emeritus
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    Oral History Interview with Carol Ann Dykes Logue, Director of Programs & Operations for the University of Central Florida's Innovation Districts and Business Incubation Program

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    About
    About Orlando Memory Developed by the Orange County Library System, Orlando Memory is a community based digital archive designed to capture and preserve the stories, images and memories of our Orlando community. Orlando Memory is ...
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    2008 Birthday Blast on the Suncruz Casino
    We celebrate my friend Dan's birthday in 2008 on the SunCruz Casino, in style! ABOVE: Emma, Brian, and the birthday boy - Dan on SunCruz Casino cruise from Port Canaveral. Read more about SunCruz Casinos. WATCH SunCruz 30 second television commercia...
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    Central Florida Fair
    When I was growing up in Marion County, the 4-H Club would bring us down to Orlando on a bus to attend the Central Florida Fair. At the time (in the middle 1950's) the Fair was held where the Amway...
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    Halloween 2006 - House Party
    We had a small Halloween party at my house off Econlockatchee Trail. I know we are too old for trick or treating, but we did it anyway! John Lennon Paul Bunyan The Invisible Man and Scarlett Cultist. Raiden god of Thunder John Lennon, ...
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    Remembering downtown Orlando
    In the early to mid-1960's, my mom and I would walk a few miles from Orlo Vista to the Pine Hills Shopping Center.  From there, we would catch a bus to downtown where we would always shop at McCory's and...
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    Remembering Pine Hills
    Enjoying the day with my mom in the early 1960's as we walked several miles to the Pine Hills Shopping Center, and a few more miles to McDonalds. As told by L. O'Connor, age 55, Orlando Before my teen years, in the...
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    Civil Air Patrol
    ABOVE: Members of the Civil Air Patrol, from the Florida Wing and the Orlando Cadet Squadron, visit the Kennedy Space Center. There have been several Civil Air Patrol units in the Orlando area over the years including the McCoy Cadet Squadron,...
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    Glenn Beck in Orlando - 2008!
    ABOVE: Television personality, talk show host, New York Times best selling author and all around good guy - Glenn Beck was in Orlando on Thursday, December 4, 2008. I stood in line for 2 1/2 hours with over a thousand...
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    Eatonville Branch Children's Library
    Eatonville Branch Library was founded in 2005.  It is a vital part of the historic town of Eatonville.  Besides providing the citizens of this area with good books to read, free computer classes and Public Computer to use, we also...
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    Naval Training Center Orlando in Pictures
    In the Beginning  The history of the 1229-acre Orlando Naval Training Center Main Base, home of the Recruit Training Command, the Service School Command, and the Nuclear Power School, began well before it was officially established in 1968. &...
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    Remember when ...
    Remember when ... JC Penney's store was located in downtown Orlando at the corner of Orange Avenue and Washington Street?  If you worked downtown in the 1970's, it was a great place to go to during your lunch break. An overtime parking...
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    Orlando Cadet Squadron
    ABOVE: Cadet Cortes from the Orlando Cadet Squadron meets Astronaut Charlie Bolden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex before the NASA Air Show practice on November 7, 2008. The Civil Air Patrol has been in the Orlando area working through...
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