Tag: 1950s

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Azalea Park Neighborhood Celebrates 60
Back in the late 1930s,  J. W. Cannon operated a 400 acre private airport along Lake Barton Road (now Semoran Blvd.) It was a grass runway for small airplanes and it had its own flying school. The Florida Aeronautical and Supply Company bought the pr ... Read more
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Joe Sikora, Lockheed Martin Engineer
The Martin Company - so they put me on the company plane with a few other guys and down to Orlando we come. When we left Baltimore it was snowing, cold, messy, you know really bad and when we landed in Orlando we landed at Executive Airport which a lot of ... Read more
People
Joe Sikora, Engineer
The Martin Company - so they put me on the company plane with a few other guys and down to Orlando we come. When we left Baltimore it was snowing, cold, messy, you know really bad and when we landed in Orlando we landed at Executive Airport which a lot of ... Read more
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The Halcyon Days of Orlando - Dann Pottinger
I'm Dann Pottinger and I'm from Orlando, one of those rare creatures that spent all my life here... My career being in the banking business. I was the founder and president of First State Financial and also president later of Commercial State Bank...I ope ... Read more
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College Park Oral History Night with The Pickerills
ABOVE: Bob Pickerill shows photos of the Pickerill Baseball Team at the College Park Oral History Night with The Pickerill Family, April 22, 2013 at Infusion Tea in College Park. Paul Pickerill was out on a boat fishing with Mike Cook one day and tho ... Read more
People
Orlando Lutheran Towers: It's a Good Community for People to Live In
Above: Evelyn Powers is a welcoming presence to the downtown community of Orlando Lutheran Towers who stop in to pick up a danish and coffee at the lovely cafe shop. We invite you to listen as she tells her story of life in the City Beautiful!   ... Read more
People
Pals and Gals by Miss Joan Cayce
Peek into the life of Orlando's It Girl with a look at Joan Cayce's "pasteup book", circa 1950s. The parties, invites, photos and newsy clippings tell the story of an Orlando debutante enjoying the good life! Edgewater High School football games, fetes ... Read more
Organizations
Edgewater High School's Fashionable Young Men
The young men of Edgewater High School don the latest fashion, Bermuda shorts and argyle socks, circa 1950s. Pictured are Roger Phillips, son of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Phillips, Steve VanVoorhees, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart VanVoorhees, Dick Bellows, son o ... Read more
Places
The Nativity Scene at Marks Street Elementary School, 1953
ABOVE IMAGE: Patsy Driggers, Jimmy Cayce, Kathryn Miller, and Richard Czerner dramatize The Nativity at Marks Street Elementary School Christmas Program directed by Mrs. Louise Stanley, December 1953. Mrs. Milligan's brother, Jimmy Cayce, appears second ... Read more
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General Surgeon Dr. C. David Price Oral History Interview, Part II
There were very few specialists when I came here. There were a few, but there was no strict criteria for exactly who did what. At Winter Park and at the San and even at the Orange, there were a lot of doctors, returned missionaries, and well trained famil ... Read more
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A Christmas Message from Our Principal
But through all this excitement boys and girls let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas - the first Christmas when to all the world was given the greatest gift of all times - the babe in the Manger, Our Savior. It was out of love for the Savior th ... Read more
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What the Well-Dress Girl Will Wear to College This Fall
ABOVE: Joan Cayce, seated far left, with the College Fashion Models pictured at the dinner given Thursday night at the Cherry Plaza in downtown Orlando, sponsored by Ivey's. Standing, left to right, are Miss Bonnie Robinson, chairman, Miss Joan Dial, Mi ... Read more