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Backstreet Boys - Howie Dorough
In the old days (around 1999) the Backstreet Boys would record at Parc Records' recording studios owned by Pat Armstrong in Altamonte Springs when there were at home here in Orlando.
Ashley Peters and Ashleigh Teicher just happened to be in...
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EPCOT Space Celebration October 1997
In October 1997 EPCOT hosted meet and greets with a number of Astronauts from Mercury to Space Shuttle and I met most of them!
It was great fun growing up in the 1960s as the country - through NASA - raced...
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All Souls Catholic Church Sunday Bulletins
All Souls Catholic Church parishioner Paul Brefka typed the Sunday Church Bulletins for more than a decade. Prior to his death in 1977, he gave the collection to the Bogeajis family (also long time parishioners of All Souls Catholic Church)...
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Donald Hickman: Director of the Pershing Missile Project Oral History Interview
ABOVE: Colonel Quill in charge of Pershing Missile training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, General Boyle, Commander of the 56th Brigade, Donald Hickman, Pershing Program Manager for Martin Marietta Orlando, and Colonel William J. Fiorentino, Army Program Manager base...
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The Senator - 3500 year old bald cypress
The oldest living resident of Florida and fifth oldest in the world was an ancient bald cypress known as "The Senator". It was the reason the park surrounding it in Longwood, Florida was named Big Tree Park. The Senator measured...
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Pershing II Missile Cartoons Fire at Cape Tests, Martin Employees Fire Back!
Martin Marietta employees create a Pershing II Missile cartoon firing back at The Orlando Sentinel cartoons ridiculing Pershing II missile tests at Cape Canaveral. View series published in The Orlando Sentinel beginning with the Sentinel cartoons and ending wi...
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Key West at Sea World
In 1996 Sea World opened Key West at Sea World here in Orlando, featuring sea turtles, a dolphin petting area, a ray petting area, Key West style entertainment and more. They advertised a contest open to middle schoolers to create...
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Zero Defects Graphics From The Martin Marietta Orlando Presentations Department, circa 1960s
DOWN TO EARTH: Pulling a ripcord and pushing a launch button really aren't very different. In both cases lives are at stake. And in both cases the product must perform the way it was intended. This calls for careful designing,...
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Florida Artist Barbara Tiffany: Oral History Interview
Award winning artist Barbara Tiffany is Director of the Painting and Drawing Department and Curator of Exhibitions at Crealde School of Art. She has an outstanding legacy of contribution in Florida as a fine artist and an art educator. Her...
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Dr. Alzo Jackson Reddick: Oral History Interview
The first African-American from Orlando elected to the Florida Legislature and the first black male to pass two constitutional amendments, Alzo Reddick grew up at 700 West Jackson Street in downtown Orlando. Dr. Reddick would later lead the historic preservation...
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WWII Veteran Charlie Hayes: a Pine Castle Oral History
Charlie Hayes, I am from Pine Castle, Florida. I was born and raised here.
What was a typical Sunday like for you growing up?
Not getting caught in mischief. If you had energy to burn you had to expel it which mostly...
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World War II: George Rollins at Sainte Mere Eglise
ABOVE: WWII Veteran Charlie Hayes of Pine Castle shares this World War II photo of his brother in law near the battle at Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy.
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This picture was taken somewhere right close to St. Mere Eglises [the...
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