Tag: growing up in Orlando

My name is Robert Byrd and I was born in Orlando, actually at my grandmother's house on Cottage Hill Road which was a little rock road off of what we then called the Old Winter Garden Highway... It was just a little bit beyond what I think you now call th ... Read more

My name is Robert Byrd and I was born in Orlando, actually at my grandmother's house on Cottage Hill Road which was a little rock road off of what we then called the Old Winter Garden Highway... It was just a little bit beyond what I think you now call th ... Read more

ABOVE IMAGE: Eddie Martin, age 6, with the fish he caught at Lake Adair, circa 1952. Eddie's grandparents, Joseph and Bertie Carrie Martin, moved to College Park in 1915. Grandpa and his free range chickens. College Park circa 1940s.   Photo co ... Read more