Memories
Places
Showalter Airpark
Howard and Sandy Showalter, and Buck Rogers started Showalter Airpark, the first private airport in Winter Park, in 1945.
Listen as Showalter Flying Service owners Bob and Kim Showalter share the history of the aviation company and our community in this...
Events
The Sherman Hemsley TV pilot
The Sherman Hemsley Television Pilot in 2000
I arrived in Orlando from Los Angeles in January of 2000 to produce a short presentation video to help sell an idea for a TV show starring my long time friend and associate, Sherman...
Organizations
The Showalter Motorette Company
Above: The Showalter Motorette Company at 671 Orange Avenue in Winter Park, Florida. The Showalter Motorette Company started by J. S. Showalter and his business partner, Ford Rogers, opened for business on November 28, 1945.
The three wheeled motor vehic...
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All Souls Catholic Church Sunday Bulletins
All Souls Catholic Church parishioner Paul Brefka typed the Sunday Church Bulletins for more than a decade. Prior to his death in 1977, he gave the collection to the Bogeajis family (also long time parishioners of All Souls Catholic Church)...
Organizations
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church
ABOVE: The first church structure of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church was according to church history, "a bush harbor or bush arbor, so called because it was an open area enclosed by loose bushes, vines and branches bent over...
Organizations
All Souls Catholic Parish History
All Souls Catholic Parish in Sanford, Florida has the distinction of being one of the oldest Catholic parishes in Central Florida.
Property Purchased in 1881
In 1881, Bishop John Moore purchased land for the construction of All Souls Catholic Church in Sanford,...
People
Richard Griffin
Longtime Ocoee resident Richard Griffin talks about growing up in Central Florida with staff at the West Oaks Library on May 27, 2015.
His family has lived in Ocoee since the 1890s.
Listen and watch this interview with Richard Griffin in two...
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Donald Hickman: Director of the Pershing Missile Project Oral History Interview
ABOVE: Colonel Quill in charge of Pershing Missile training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, General Boyle, Commander of the 56th Brigade, Donald Hickman, Pershing Program Manager for Martin Marietta Orlando, and Colonel William J. Fiorentino, Army Program Manager base...
People
Walter M. Windsor, 1918 - 2008
Walter moved to Orlando as the general manager of WFTV-Channel 9. Many viewers remember him as the editorial spokesman for the station and his appearances on the show, "Filmography." He is also remembered as the Master of Ceremonies for the...
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The Senator - 3500 year old bald cypress
The oldest living resident of Florida and fifth oldest in the world was an ancient bald cypress known as "The Senator". It was the reason the park surrounding it in Longwood, Florida was named Big Tree Park. The Senator measured...
Events
The Seminole Indians Visit The Florida Spa
ABOVE: Photo of The Seminole Indians, special guest visitors to The Florida Spa. Richard Weinsier describes the experience of hearing them speak and sharing perspectives and information to further understanding between cultures.
LISTEN as Richard Weinsier...
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Pershing II Missile Cartoons Fire at Cape Tests, Martin Employees Fire Back!
Martin Marietta employees create a Pershing II Missile cartoon firing back at The Orlando Sentinel cartoons ridiculing Pershing II missile tests at Cape Canaveral. View series published in The Orlando Sentinel beginning with the Sentinel cartoons and ending wi...
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