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Mrs. Saundra Gray Welcomes Mr. Walt Disney to Florida
Stunning Florida native and top flight water skier, Mrs. Saundra Gray welcomes Mr. Walt Disney to the Sunshine State.
Pictured from left to right are Walt Disney, Saundra Gray, Charles Gray, and Florida Governor Haydon Burns.
Orlando attorney Charles...
People
James Carson Robinson - Jim Robinson
Jim Robinson was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina and became an Orlando citizen when his father brought his family to Florida in 1926.
Jim attended Hillcrest Elementary School for the first two years and was in the class with a...
People
Glenn F. Miller - Library Director 1970-1995
Glenn F. Miller
Glenn F. Miller was born December 5, 1937 in Saginaw, Michigan, 4th of 11 children to Herbert and Evelyn Miller. Miller attended elementary school, junior high and senior high school in Saginaw, Michigan. An avid reader, Miller began...
Places
My Grandparents' House
My grandfather built his house. My dad gave him the property. At the time they were tearing down some of the old barracks from Pine Castle Air Force Base, this was before McCoy. I guess after WWII they didn't think...
People
Clara Elizabeth Wendel - Library Director 1943-1970
Early Years
Clara Mathilde Elizabeth Wendel was born on June 1, 1904 in Harvey, Cook County, Illinois. Her family moved from Chicago, Illinois to Gotha, Florida in or around 1916.
Their home was a typical Florida home from that era, with wrap...
Events
Orlando High School Homecoming VI
Orlando High School classes of 1927 through 1952 gather every few years at the site of their old Alma Mater, now Howard Middle School. Howard Middle School has been carefully maintaining the classic exterior look of the original high school...
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Historic Orlando
ABOVE: The Orlando Opera House. The Opera House was located on Court Street in the middle of block between Pine and Church streets and across from Richards Undertaker business. It can be found on the 1884 Orlando Business District map.
Explore...
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Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home
Florida's Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home opened in Jacksonville in April 1893 and was dedicated on April 6, 1893.
The Home was first financed and maintained by the United Confederate Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans and Martha Reid Chapter ...
Events
Orlando Senior High School Commencement 1942
Program for the commencement exercises Orlando Senior High School at the Municipal Auditorium, Friday Evening June 5, 1942, 8:00 P.M.
The Rev. J. H. Rutter of Broadway Methodist Church did the invocation; The Rev. J. Powell Tucker of the First Baptist...
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Charles Gray Oral History Interview
My name is Charles Gray and I'm from really Orlando except that I was born in Leesburg, Florida. And I moved to Orlando in the fifth grade and I've been here ever since except in 1969 I bought a ranch...
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Ruth Butler's Oral History Interview
My father gets to Lake Monroe with his truck and at that time there was no I-4, he was going around Lake Monroe with their palm trees and just fell in love. And he sent my mom a postcard and...
People
Dorothy Marie Johansson
Dorothy Marie Johansson was born August 3, 1924. She had a little sister named Barbara and graduated from Orlando Senior High School in 1942.
She was the daughter of Roslyn Holloway of Pavo, Georgia and Karl Gunnar Johansson who came to...
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