Month: May 2014
Organizations
Telephone Reference Service Then and Now
ABOVE: Monika Cooper at her computer in Questline 1990s.
Telephone Reference Service - The Albertson Public Library
An article by George Butler published in the Orlando Morning Sentinel in December 1949 mentions telephone reference service provided by librar...
Organizations
United Mine Workers Union
The United Mine Workers attempted to unionize Taxi drivers in Orlando in May 1949. An article from the Orlando Post published Friday, May 20, 1949, calls for those on strike to stop the violence towards non-striking Taxi drivers, their managers...
Organizations
Friends of the Library Association - Organized March 1949
In the beginning
The 1973 history of the Friends of the Library (above) records the beginnings of the group.
Due to the enthusiastic efforts of Zonta Club, the Friends of the Library of Orlando came into being in 1949. The Winter Park-Orlando...
People
Ruth Schankweiler Butler
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...
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Gassing Up for G. T. Willey
My name is Don Dunn and I've lived in the Orlando area since 1961, but visited for the first time in 1947 in the springtime... there were six of us in a '38 Chevrolet that belonged to my stepfather, my...
Organizations
Bookmobiles, Traveling Branches and Library Stations
ABOVE: The Orlando Public Library Traveling Branch and County Bookmobile in front of the 1966 Orlando Public Library.
A Bookmobile for the Library
A proposal for the addition of a bookmobile was presented to the board of the Albertson Public Library by...
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Mrs. Marilee Griffin Ivy Oral History Interview
My folks were pioneers of Orange County and my grandfather came down in the late 1800's around the Civil War time. And he bought land up around Lake Griffin up around Wildwood and that lake was named after them. And...
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Paul's Truck Stop: Homemade Pies, Delicious Coffee
The featured photo above is of Paul's Truck Stop on South Orange Blossom Trail facing southbound. Ruth's dad pumped the gas and her mom made the homemade pies. The family lived upstairs over the truck stop with few neighbors and...
People
Christian Hurst
Ocoee High School student Christian Hurst talks about the school's new all-digital curriculum at West Oaks Library in Ocoee on May 8, 2014.
People
Marthe Guilbaud
Ocoee High School student Marthe Guilbaud talks about the school's new all-digital curriculum at West Oaks Library in Ocoee on May 8, 2014.
People
Tori Cartwright
Ocoee High School student Tori Cartwright talks about the school's new all-digital curriculum at West Oaks Library in Ocoee on May 8, 2014.
