Memories
Places
Barbarella
Photographs of the outside of Barbarella nightclub, located at 70 N. Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando. Opened in 1987 with the name Beach Club, the location quickly became a popular destination for live music and dj’d dance parties. Renamed Barbarella...
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Celebrating Walt Disney World’s 50th Anniversary
A collection of memorable stories and images shared with the Orange County Library System that celebrate Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary.
[caption id="attachment_28061" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Lloyd Bridges filming at Epcot 1983. Submitted by ...
Organizations
Oral History Interview with Carolyn Fennell Senior Director of Public Affairs for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority
Ms. Carolyn Fennell is Senior Director of Public Affairs for the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. She is responsible for communication for Orlando International Airport and Orlando Executive Airport including all domestic and international media relations a...
Organizations
Orlando Remembered Round Table Oral History, March 16, 2022
Orlando Remembered Round Table oral history presentation conducted at the Orlando Public Library on March 16, 2022.
We welcome you to listen to this oral history collection of Orlando Remembered members.
Listen (31:34)
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Organizations
Dr. Robert Serros Orlando Remembered Oral History
Listen as Dr. Robert Serros, recalls the origins of Orlando Remembered and the influential members through the years dedicated to preserving landmarks of Orlando history.
Dr. Serros and his brother Andy Serros, standing, served as leaders for Orlando Reme...
Events
Rae Chesny: Remembering Zora Neale Hurston
Scholar and author Rae Chesny was interviewed at the Eatonville Branch Library on Friday, January 28, 2022 during her three-day event series Zora Neale Hurston: The Storyteller and Her Town funded by the Florida Humanities. Rae Chesny is an award-winning...
Events
Professor S. James Gates, Jr. Presents at Orlando Remembered for Black History Month, February 2022
Dr. S. James Gates, Jr. is the Brown Theoretical Physics Center Director, Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, an Affiliate Mathematics Professor, and a Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies & Public Affairs at Brown University. He is...
Places
Albert Drug Store, Established 1939-1992
Menus from Albert Drug Store which was located at 2201 Edgewater Drive in College Park, established 1939-1992. College Park Historical Society of Orlando archives include a 1971 menu, a 1992 menu, and an advertisement for an Orlando Remembered event, Fountain...
Organizations
Oral History Interview with Library Director & CEO Mary Anne Hodel
All of the things in our society that are changing so very rapidly. How do we harness ourselves to those trends, and provide services that customers in our community would want, and need, and benefit from? That’s very critical that the...
People
Linda Chapin: The Early Years
I always thought of myself as a Florida girl. Even though we lived in Little Rock and Kankakee and St. Louis and Connecticut and Detroit, during all those years the only place that was stable was here, in Orlando. My...
Places
The College Park Neighborhood Association's 16th Annual Homes Tour: Mediterranean Revivals, 2006
Mediterranean Revival is an eclectic style using Spanish, Italian Renaissance and Moorish architectural elements. In Florida, the style's popularity soared in the 1920's; it remained a pervasive influence until World War II. It was used for a variety of building...
Places
The College Park Neighborhood Association 15th Annual Historic Homes Tour, 2005
1327 Eastin Avenue Historic Home Featured in the College Park Neighborhood Association 15th Annual Historic Homes Tour. Photo courtesy of College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake.
A recent historic resources study of College Park sh...
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