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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee’s Ivanhoe Area Historic House Tour, 1995
On the shores of Lake Ivanhoe, near where Dartmouth Street meets the lake, ground was broken Feb. 26, 1925 for the first subdivision to be called College Park (north to Princeton, west to Edgewater, east to University). The developers of...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992
Margaret Ark New Era Markets at Edgewater Drive and Princeton Street.
Photo provided by College Park Historical Society Board Member Julie Northlake.
College Park Neighborhood Association Historical Committee's Ivanhoe Historic House Tour, 1992...
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College Park Neighborhood Association Dubsdread Area Historic House Tour, 1991
College Park Historic Homes Tour House at 375 Niblick Avenue featured in the 1991 Dubsdread Area Historic Homes Tour sponsored by the College Park Neighborhood Association through its Historical Committee.
The Dubsdread area got its start in 1923 with ...
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Loch Haven Park
Proposed Plan for the Development of Loch Haven Park
The 72-page "Report and Recommendations for the Development of Loch Haven Park - A Park and Cultural Center Proposed for the City of Orlando, Florida" was submitted to the city in January...
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Lora's Klip and Kurl
ABOVE: Advertisement in the 1963 Colonial High School yearbook.
Special thanks to Lora's daughter Elizabeth Bucker for sharing her memories and photographs to make this post possible.
ABOVE: Lora's Klip and Kurl Beauty Salon. You can see the hair dryers al...
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Circus World
ABOVE: Photo of the Circus World billboard from Interstate 4 in the 1970s.
Circus World History
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Inc., opened Circus World in Haines City, Florida on February 21, 1974. While the location was great...
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Davis Park Motel
Davis Park Motel 1960s
The Davis Park Motel was located at 221 East Colonial Drive for decades. It was family owned and operated.
ABOVE Featured Image: 1960s postcard of the Davis Park Motel at 221 East Colonial Drive.
Davis Park Motel 1990 Marketing...
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The Mercado - International Drive
The Mercado
The Mercado was a lively and vibrant destination frequented by 1000s of tourists and locals alike with the free nightly entertainment, dining and shopping. The free entertainment in the outdoor courtyard and Blazing Piano's Red Hot Rock n Roll...
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Haberkamp Family of Pine Hills
ABOVE: Marilyn Haberkamp with her sons Tim, Tom and Robert.
The Haberkamp Family in Pine Hills
Marilyn Haberkamp and her family moved to the Pine Hills area of Orlando from the Village of Mount Prospect, Illinois in 1966 to open a Burger...
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Oral History Interview with Colonel Peggy Medvedev, USAF, RN
Orlando Health, Orlando Regional Medical Center – Orlando, FL.
I'm Peggy Medvedev. I was born Margaret Ann Sebold and I was born in Summit, New Jersey, but I moved to Florida to a little town called DeLeon Springs just north of...
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Oral History Interview with the Honorable Mable Butler, Part I of II
Book cover for 1820 Mable Butler Avenue by The Honorable Mable Butler with a photo of her on the cover. The Honorable Mable Butler was the first African American female to be elected to the Orlando City Council and the...
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Oral History Interview with The Honorable Linda Chapin, Part II of II
"Growing Concern" by Linda Chapin Reprinted with Permission from The Orlando Sentinel, Sunday, July 31, 2005.
The second oral history interview with The Honorable Linda Chapin on October 28, 2019 at the Orlando Public Library. In this second meeting we disc...
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