Florida – The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Ads from the Open Road, Volume 3: Local News Edition

Chris Holmes
posted on April 19, 2016
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For this third installment of vintage billboard photos, I have a gallery of roadside advertisements for local news broadcasts. Just about all of these date from the 1970s and ’80s, and include

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Brochure Beauties #3: Caribbean Gardens in Naples, Florida

Chris Holmes
posted on August 7, 2014February 5, 2015
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A lovely mid-century tourism brochure for Caribbean Gardens in Naples, Florida, now known as the Naples

Posted in Ephemera, TV & Radio

Film at 11: A Gallery of Vintage TV News Program Ads

Chris Holmes
posted on November 5, 2013October 4, 2013
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A gallery of vintage TV news program ads showing what the news looked like in the 1950s, 1960s, and

Vintage Airline Travel Poster / TWA - Florida

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20 Beautiful Vintage Airline Travel Posters

Chris Holmes
posted on July 30, 2013July 26, 2013
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These vintage airline travel posters from the likes of TWA, Pan Am, American Airlines, and BOAC will have you heading to your nearest travel

Broadway Joe's Restaurant - Miami, Florida, 1969

Posted in Capsules, Football Friday

Time Capsule: Broadway Joe’s Restaurant, 1969

Chris Holmes
posted on October 5, 2012October 6, 2012
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After his crowning football glory in Miami in Super Bowl III, Joe Namath took the next natural step and opened a restaurant - Broadway Joe's - in the

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Vintage Fruit Crate Label Art

Chris Holmes
posted on June 7, 2012July 17, 2012
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Here's a gallery celebrating the lost art of vintage fruit crate

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Kitchen Kabaret, the show that has the whole town cooking!

Chris Holmes
posted on September 27, 2011October 6, 2011
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I used to visit my grandfather in Florida every summer when I was a kid. One of the first years I went was not long after Disney’s EPCOT Center opened in October 1982. I remember being fairly