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Pull for the library! - 1980 Campaign for Library Expansion
1980 Campaign for Library Expansion
Pull for the Library!
After expecting a library expansion millage referendum to be on the ballot "any time now" since 1976, the measure was finally put before voters in the Orange County, Florida, district served by the...
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Adam Ant at the Hard Rock Live
Adam Ant at Hard Rock Live
Coming from punk's first wave in the United Kingdom, Adam Ant got his start in a band called Adam and the Ants. They released three albums before Adam Ant went solo in 1982. His first...
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Pale Waves at The Social
Pale Waves at the Social
Pale Waves is an indie rock/dream pop group from Manchester, England.
The band formed in 2014 when Heather Baron-Gracie and Ciara Doran met while studying at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute. They released a couple...
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Gogol Bordello at the Beacham
Gogol Bordello is a popular "gypsy punk" group, as they call themselves, with members coming from many different parts of the world, although their sound is most influenced by the folk music of Eastern Europe and punk.
They played at the...
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Orlando Public Library Dedication 1966
From APL to OPL
After decades of waiting, construction of the new Albertson Public Library began in October 1964. In May 1965, it was decided that the name of the new library would be the Orlando Public Library. Read a memo...
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Unsung Zeros Farewell Show
Poster promoting the farewell show of Orlando band Unsung Zeros at House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista on March 31, 2005. Supporting bands included In Passing, Abagnale, and My Getaway. Formed in 1998, Unsung Zeros gained a loyal following...
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Rae Chesny: Remembering Zora Neale Hurston
Scholar and author Rae Chesny was interviewed at the Eatonville Branch Library on Friday, January 28, 2022 during her three-day event series Zora Neale Hurston: The Storyteller and Her Town funded by the Florida Humanities. Rae Chesny is an award-winning...
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Professor S. James Gates, Jr. Presents at Orlando Remembered for Black History Month, February 2022
Dr. S. James Gates, Jr. is the Brown Theoretical Physics Center Director, Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, an Affiliate Mathematics Professor, and a Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies & Public Affairs at Brown University. He is...
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College Park Historic Homes Tour - West Lake Adair / South College Park, 1998
818 Ellwood Avenue home featured in the College Park Historic Homes Tour, West Lake Adair/South College Park - Nov. 22, 1998.
Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake.
In the 1910's and 20's the area north of Colonial...
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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...
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Celebrating at the Buffalo Trading Company - 1989
In 1989, six buddies celebrated the boss' (Tim Glaze) birthday and retirement at the Buffalo Trading Company which used to be located at Orlando's Church Street Station.
From left to right, back row first: Jeff Karr, Richard Kellor, Ken Muller; front...
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Christmas Sharing at the Country Club
PLAYING SANTA CLAUS TO ORLANDO'S NEEDY KIDDIES: Wives of Junior Chamber of Commerce members who spent the entire day Thursday shopping for toys for the children who have written letters to the Good Fellows. They are standing with Claude Wolfe,...
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