Memories
Places
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
On the shores of Lake Ivanhoe, near where Dartmouth Street meets the lake, ground was broken Feb. 26, 1925 for the first subdivision to be called College Park (north to Princeton, west to Edgewater, east to University). The developers of...
Places
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992
Margaret Ark New Era Markets at Edgewater Drive and Princeton Street.
Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake.
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992...
Places
College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, 1991
College Park Historic Homes Tour House at 375 Niblick Avenue featured in the 1991 Dubsdread Area Historic Homes Tour sponsored by the College Park Neighborhood Association through its Historical Committee.
The Dubsdread area got its start in 1923 with ...
Places
Loch Haven Park
Proposed Plan for the Development of Loch Haven Park
The 72-page "Report and Recommendations for the Development of Loch Haven Park - A Park and Cultural Center Proposed for the City of Orlando, Florida" was submitted to the city in January...
Places
Lora's Klip and Kurl
ABOVE: Advertisement in the 1963 Colonial High School yearbook.
Special thanks to Lora's daughter Elizabeth Bucker for sharing her memories and photographs to make this post possible.
ABOVE: Lora's Klip and Kurl Beauty Salon. You can see the hair dryers al...
People
Dolores Pieper
Above: 1977 NRL ID photo
Dolores A. Pieper
Dolores A. Pieper worked in the Technical Information Office in the Underwater Sound Research Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (USRD-NRL) in Orlando with physicists Rodger N. Capps, Vincent Benedetti and ...
Topics
"Harriet, Henrietta and Orlando's School for Girls", An Orlando Remembered Presentation by Historian Richard Cronin, March 2021
In honor of Women's History Month, Historian Richard Cronin elucidates the local history documenting how the founders of Orlando felt educating women to be very important.
Listen as Author Richard Cronin presents Harriet, Henrietta, and Orlando's School...
Events
Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings Presents His Oral History at Orlando Remembered, February 2021
Mayor Jerry L. Demings is the fifth Mayor of Orange County, and is the first African-American to lead the office. Mayor Demings became Orlando’s first African-American police chief in 1998. He was elected as the first African-American Orange County Sheriff...
Organizations
Orlando Senior High School - Senior Class of 1929
Orlando Senior High School
Senior Class of 1929
Board of Education
L B MATTHEWS, Chairman
Mrs. F E GODFREY
C E HOWARD
James H PARK, Supervisor of Schools
Eunice DeLANEY, Asst. Supervisor
Faculty
J B Walker, Principal
Gordon H MAY,...
Organizations
The Florida Sanitarium
The Florida Sanitarium
The sanitarium was the brainchild of Dr. William Keith Kellogg and his brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. (Yes, the cornflakes Kelloggs from Battle Creek, Michigan!)
Excerpts from an article entitled "Florida Hospitals Traveled Long Road ...
Places
Circus World
ABOVE: Photo of the Circus World billboard from Interstate 4 in the 1970s.
Circus World History
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., opened Circus World in Haines City, Florida on February 21, 1974. While the location was great...
Places
Davis Park Motel
Davis Park Motel 1960s
The Davis Park Motel was located at 221 East Colonial Drive for decades. It was family owned and operated.
ABOVE Featured Image: 1960s postcard of the Davis Park Motel at 221 East Colonial Drive.
Davis Park Motel 1990 Marketing...
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