Year: 2012
Organizations
Back to School Blessings at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church
Lucas Boyce of Orlando Magic, Fabiola Gaines of Hebni Nutrition, Mr. Modeste, inspirational poet, and Orange County School Board's Kat Gordon speak at Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church's Back to School Celebration & Conversation. Community...
Places
Academic Excellence at Dr. Phillips High School
Featured image, above, is of Anna Mae Patz, Advanced Placement Calculus Instructor at Dr. Phillips High School, with Kathi Brooks Myers, award winning math student at Dr. Phillips, photo circa 1980s.
Anna Mae Patz coached the Dr. Phillips High School Math...
Places
Edgewater High School, Class of '58
ABOVE: Palm Terrace Beauty Salon corner of Princeton Street and Edgewater Drive in College Park, 1950s. Bertha Huth opened the salon in May 1952 and sold it in September 1960.
CJ and Sandy walked to Edgewater High School together in the 1950s...
Places
The Tunnel
ABOVE: Concord Park Elementary School
When Katherine Beasley went to Concord Park Elementary School what fascinated her was the tunnel. Students coming from the Country Club area of Orlando walked through an underpass or "The Tunnel", as most called it, under...
Places
Saint James Cathedral: Come to Learn, Leave to Serve
Children engaged in learning at Saint James Cathedral at the corner of Robinson Street and Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando, photo circa 1970s.
Photo courtesy of the Mario Mesa Photo Archives.
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Places
Youth Bible Study at St. Michael's Episcopal Church
ABOVE: 1960's photo of Youth Bible Study at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park.
Girls engaged in Bible study at Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. Circa 1960s.
Boys engaged in learning at Youth Bible Study at Saint ...
Organizations
Princeton Elementary Report Card, 1946-47
Miss Eleanor Bell's Princeton Elementary first grade report card for school year 1946-47.
"We believe in the SPIRITUAL welfare of your child and to this end we urge that he be regularly identified with a CHURCH and SUNDAY SCHOOL organization" -...
Events
The Old Amway Arena Implosion
The old Amway Arena, also known as the O-rena and the TD Waterhouse Centre, was brought down in a controlled implosion around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 25, 2012.
Many memories were made at the venue since the grand opening in...
People
Donald S. Evans
Donald Samuel Perry Evan's parents came here in 1889. He ran a local downtown pharmacy for many years. At the time of this interview he was a retired pharmacist and a former chairman of the county board of commissioners.
This interview...
Places
Edgewater High School Renovation
Edgewater High School Comprehensive for renovation of the 1952 building at 3200 Edgewater Drive in Orlando, FL
Construction Manager: W.G. Mills / Mims Construction, a joint venture.
Architect: C.T. Hsu & Associates.
Estimated cost of completion: $68,003,636.
GMP: $55,033,175.
Construction Start: 2/3/2009
Construction Completion: 10/21/2011
Places
School Days
Air raid drills to Apopka, Elvis in Orlando, and the Concord School tunnel, school days remembered in this excerpt from an oral history interview with Edgewater High School graduates Katherine Beasley Bornstein, Patricia Bell Peters, and Eleanor Crawford. In the...
Places
Princeton Elementary 5th Grade Class, 1950-51
Princeton Elementary School fifth graders pose for a photo in front of the school on Princeton Street in College Park, 1950-51 school year.
Seated in the first row are the Bell twins, Eleanor Bell, center and fifth from the left, and...
