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Our FloridaPast Citrus History Tour Continues 6C

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Old Fort Citrus Shop
Tree Ripened Fruit! Grower Shipper

Wonderful Captures by the shutter and share by the late Brad Conover
of his Family's Business in St. Augustine, FloridaPast
These Now & Then Fades are Dedicated to his memory 

Click to see where Orange Bird once Stood
Orange Bird Invites Customers with a Smile
Click on Orange Bird to visit where he was once
Mr. Orange Bird with a Big Welcoming Smile
Borrowed from the original Facebook post by Jeff Davies, Historic Florida X Group;
​Tracy Hagan tells us, "Sadly, Brad passed away almost 2 years ago. This was our grandparents citrus shop on San Marco, at what is now Borillos, next to Luli's. The bird was made for the shop. I have pics somewhere of it being built."

To visit this thread on Historic Florida X Group, Click Here 

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Russ Roberts
 tells us "The Orange bird has been refurbished and now sits on the Vilano pier in St. Augustine."
Sure enough, Orange Bird Stand Proudly on the pier, though it appears he is now Blue Bird.

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Orangeland Citrus Stand at 10181 Rt 41 Brooksville Fla 1950s

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Orangeland Roadside Citrus Stand at 10181 Rt 41 Brooksville FloridaPast 1950s era - Note the little building still stands today

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The Citrus Corner - Reese Morgan's - St. Pete Beach Florida

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Reese and Dorothea Morgan - Indian River Fruit -1950s era
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6400 Gulf Blvd., St. Pete

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Roadside billboard for A-OK BRAND Select Florida CITRUS
ALEXANDER AND BAIRD COMPANY
PIERSON & DELAND FloridaPast

Taken from an October 8, 1909 issue of The DeLand Newspaper;
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Now Shipping Oranges from South Florida. Alexander and Baird have begun shipping of oranges from Lee and DeSoto Counties.  
The fruit there as usual, is riper and better colored than that in this section. A. G. Hamlin made his first shipment from DeLand this week Mr. Hamlin has a very early smooth-skin variety that never fails to a good price in the market. 
He expects to ship about 1500 boxes of fruit this year. Grapefruit is coloring up fine.
Both oranges and grapefruit are small this year notwithstanding the heavy 
rains of the past summer and this will this curtail the crop a good many 
hundreds of thousand boxes throughout the State. Small shipments of fruit are now going forward every day. Nearly every grower who cultivates as much as five acres or more has one or two 
trees that ripen the fruit earlier than others. While quite green this fruit is 
juicy and sweet in September and quite palatable. The small grower who handles his own crop generally picks this early fruit and gets a good price for or it.
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Another blurb of history borrowed to share;
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ROSS HEFLIN MOOTY was the General Manager of the Alexander & Baird Packing Association in DeLand and Pierson, Florida for many years. Also a member of Florida Citrus Mutual, he served as chair of its Tangerine Co-op." - See more and credit; at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orlandosentinel/obituary.aspx?n=ross-heflin-mooty&pid=150727845#sthash.k7aiLEoA.dpuf"
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A-OK BRAND ALEXANDER AND BAIRD CO. BILLBOARD - ROADSIDE DELAND

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Hammock Brand Billboard Tavares Florida

CLICK TO SEE WHERE HAMMOCK ONCE WAS
Earmark for Hammock Packing House Tavares, FloridaPast
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Hammock Brand Billboard in Tavares Florida - 1960s-70s Paste Over google map, July 2013
We can still remember when this packing house was alive and well. As history is gathered, we'll add it here.
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Hammock Brand Tavares Florida May 2014 Google Snip - Obviously long gone since
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Where The Hammock Brand Citrus Property was in Tavares - July 2023 Google Snip

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CORLEY'S - Indian River - ORANGE BOWL
Roadside Citrus and Gift Shop, Cocoa, FloridaPast

These FloridaPast Roadside Stands, are one of my Personal Favorites of FloridaPast Attractions
Clicking this image, you can will See it NOW & THEN "Fade"

The Famed Orange World - As it was in the beginning years
It made for a Wonderful Now & The Fade - Just Click the Big Orange

Click to visit today fade back to yesterday, with the slide of the Fade-Bar
You can see the Serenity if the background, of another FloridaPast era....

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Osceola Groves Teepee Room Gift Shop and New Packing Plant
four miles south of Cocoa on US 1
​Your hosts Frank and Mae Mirabito

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Take a Faded Now & Then Trip Back Here. Just click the image

The Fruit Bowl - 657 Lincoln Road Miami FloridaPast

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Interior View of The Fruit Bowl - 657 Lincoln Rd.
Sometime during 1930s - 1940s era
When this WhatWasInThere Now & Then Fade was created,
the original building was still in use. Note the glass block windows.
Today this interior has been split into two separate spaces. 

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Clicking on the view, will bring you to the very spot the photographer was standing back then. WhatWasInThere, now we know

Victory Groves - Rockledge Florida

Whaley's Indian River, Victory Groves Photograph
What a FloridaPast Roadside Fruit Stand Might Look Like in the Earlier Years. This particular photo depicts Whaley's Famous Indian River Fruit Stand, Victory Groves - CLICK to See a NOW & THEN "Fade" on WhatWasThere
CLICK HERE FOR A STORY WITH PHOTOS by Florida Today

Bob White Brand Packing House-DeLeon Springs Florida

Visit Rick Kilby's BlogSpot on Flickr to see some photographs and read some history

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