Tag: 1950s

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College Park Oral History Night with Joan & Bill Milligan
Above: Joan and Bill Milligan, special guest speakers, at College Park Oral History Night at Infusion Tea, October 29, 2012. The Milligans celebrated 50 years of marriage this month and share their history of life in Orlando in these audio excerpts fro ... Read more
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General Surgeon Dr. C. David Price Medical Oral History Interview, 2012
When Florida native Dr. C. David Price came to Orlando in 1954, he was the only fully qualified General Surgeon between Orlando and Jacksonville. You had to join the Orange County Medical Society to practice medicine and have hospital privileges. Emergenc ... Read more
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Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church Presentation to the Historic Preservation Board
ABOVE: Deaconess Lillian Lancaster in the sanctuary of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church in downtown Orlando, August 16, 2012. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Institutional Church Presentation to the Historic Preservation Board, City of Or ... Read more
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Viola A. Fosgate
Viola and her husband, real estate salesman Charles Francis Fosgate moved to Orlando from Boston in 1919 along with the other Fosgate brothers, Chester Crawford Fosgate (citrus grower) and Stanley P. Fosgate, drawn  here by their father, Leo E. Fosgate . ... Read more
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Charlie Finley
Charlie Finley was well known around town for the family's paint and wallpaper business but he also had a small cattle business on the side and was an avid hunter.   In the late 1930s he served the state of Florida as a Game Warden ("for 11 years") and ... Read more
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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 when Sandy ... Read more
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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, ... Read more
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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. ... Read more
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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 Patricia Bell, sec ... Read more
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WWII Veteran Michael A. Monell
ABOVE: Photo of World War II Veteran Michael A. Monell at Saint James Cathedral in downtown Orlando, November 9, 2011. Michael Monell was drafted in 1943 and sent to St. Petersburg, FL to experience "The Jungle" in preparation for service in the South Pa ... Read more
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Sister Mary Katherine Palisin - Easter Memories
ABOVE: 1953 photo of Mary Katherine Palisin with her family in front of their brick home in Lakewood, Ohio built by her parents in 1951. Pictured are parents, Anna and Michael Palisin, and the children from left to right Michael, Annie, Georgine, Margar ... Read more