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
Orange Bird Invites Customers with a Smile
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Mr. Orange Bird with a Big Welcoming Smile
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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
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.
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
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
Orangeland Roadside Citrus Stand at 10181 Rt 41 Brooksville FloridaPast 1950s era - Note the little building still stands today
Roadside billboard for A-OK BRAND Select Florida CITRUS
ALEXANDER AND BAIRD COMPANY
PIERSON & DELAND FloridaPast
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Taken from an October 8, 1909 issue of The DeLand Newspaper;
"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." ____ Another blurb of history borrowed to share; "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" |
A-OK BRAND ALEXANDER AND BAIRD CO. BILLBOARD - ROADSIDE DELAND
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Hammock Brand Billboard Tavares Florida
Earmark for Hammock Packing House Tavares, FloridaPast
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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CORLEY'S - Indian River - ORANGE BOWL
Roadside Citrus and Gift Shop, Cocoa, FloridaPast
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
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
Take a Faded Now & Then Trip Back Here. Just click the image
The Fruit Bowl - 657 Lincoln Road Miami FloridaPast
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.
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
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
Bob White Brand Packing House-DeLeon Springs Florida
Visit Rick Kilby's BlogSpot on Flickr to see some photographs and read some history
