Tag: 1960s

Events
Episcopal Youth Community Retreat, Spring 1964
Young adults from Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park enjoy recreational activities at the Episcopal Youth Community Retreat, Spring 1964. Above: Dockside photo of the young people of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park at the ... Read more
Events
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
Places
Technology Development in Central Florida
The Research and Advanced Technology Systems (RATS) section of Martin Marietta in Middle River got combined to make a company called Bunker-Ramo. Bunker was from Martin Marietta and Ramo was from Simon Ramo, Ramo Wooldridge out at the Cape. And they were ... Read more
People
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
People
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
Organizations
Founding Members of St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Founding members of Saint Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park are pictured in this 1960s church photo: Ginny Brewster, Robin Murphy, and Charlie Rowe. Ginny Brewster was the first Altar Guild Directress for St. Michael's Church. Robin Murphy s ... Read more
Organizations
Confirmation at St. Michael's Episcopal Church
ABOVE featured image: December 18, 1966 photo of Confirmation Mass at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. ABOVE: March 16, 1958 photo of Confirmation celebration at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in College Park. Pictured are Atwill, Kim Mi ... Read more
Places
Preserving the Flora of Florida for Future Generations
When Hurricane Charley went through here and devastated part of our yard we spent two years hauling out 9 of the giant oak trees that had fallen. Then the people came and told us we had canker on our citrus and 12 of those went. We replanted and redid and ... Read more
People
My Entrance Into the Orlando Jewish Community
We would meet on Orange Avenue with our swimsuits and go to Palm Beach where the shops closed at 5:30. "I really felt like I was on vacation even though I was working."  From the Lerner Shop on Orange Avenue to the shores of Palm Beach, centenarian Myrtl ... Read more
People
Barry Nager
Orange County Library System staff member Caitlin talks to Central Florida resident Barry Nager for the Orlando Memory project. Listen to this interview with Barry Nager recorded at the Zora! Outdoor Festival of the Arts on Saturday, January 28, 2012. ... Read more
People
LBJ's Lake Eola Handshake
President Lyndon B. Johnson, the first president ever to sleep in Orlando, stayed at the Cherry Plaza just around the corner from the Buning's family home on Lake Eola during his 1964 campaign visit. Alice Buning remembers competing with her brother, Rick ... Read more
People
Joe Cangelose, Supervisory Auditor at the Naval Training Center
December 22, 1981 article from the NAV-A-GATOR, on Joe Cangelose's three service career at the  Naval Training Center in Orlando. Joseph J. Cangelose first came to the Orlando Army Air Base in 1942. The base was located at the corner of Primrose and R ... Read more