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Welcome to our Lake County Now & Then Fades' Page
Bringing FloridaPast back to Life, if only for a moment......

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"Preserving Yesterday, Today, for Tomorrow"
One Fade-Over-Snip at a time

With the help of Lake County Historian, Clay Conner, FloridaMemoryProject,
and those of you who kindly shared images, stories and history with us,

We Extend a Sincere Appreciation for the Dedication to the Preservation of FloridaPast

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About Lake County

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We'll post here, and give you the proper credits
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Lake County was created in 1887 from portions of Sumter and Orange Counties.
It was named for the numerous lakes in the area.
Which there are approximately 1,400 named lakes.


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Borrowed for Historical Educational Purposes;
Incorporated Towns and Cities of Lake County;

  • Town of Astatula
  • City of Clermont
  • City of Eustis
  • City of Fruitland Park
  • City of Groveland
  • Town of Howey-in-the-Hills
  • Town of Lady Lake
  • City of Leesburg
  • City of Mascotte
  • City of Minneola
  • Town of Montverde
  • City of Mount Dora
  • City of Tavares
  • City of Umatilla
  • Unincorporated Cities and townships of Lake County;
  • Altoona
  • Astor
  • Bassville Park
  • Citrus Ridge
  • Ferndale
  • Grand Island
  • Lake Kathryn
  • Lake Mack-Forest Hills
  • Lanier
  • Lisbon
  • Mount Plymouth
  • Okahumpka
  • Orange Bend
  • Paisley
  • Pine Lakes
  • Pittman
  • Silver Lake
  • Sorrento
  • The Villages (partly)
  • Yalaha
  • source; Wikipedia

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A Great place to learn more about Leesburg and it's rich history -> Leesburg Heritage Society. INC
Clay Conner's Facebook Page, where you'll find a Wealth of History, Images, Stories and more, Historic Lake County, Florida
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For those of you in and around the Groveland areas, visit Lake County Historical Museum on Facebook
A link to one of Groveland's Historical Society pages, where you're sure to find some interesting history.

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Bringing FloridaPast back to FloridaPresent.
If only for a moment.
CLICK on IMAGES to TRAVEL BACK to a FloridaPast TIME

Just about 14 years, we've worked placing places and things on the map.
It was a lot of work doing so. Only to have the entire project, thrown out the window.
All because of the cost of Google
Unfortunately, our Now & Then Fades do not work.
​Please accept our humble apologies.

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Click to give a visit, Now & Then
Taking a stroll along Sunnyside Road aka Sunnyside Drive, Leesburg, FloridaPast
Click for a Now & Then Fade
The Good Morning Wave as we travel down Main Street, Leesburg, Florida 1940s

Click to see our Now & Then Fade
Leesburg Rifles and RR Depot WWI Era
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Do You happen to know Any of these Gents?

Now & Then Fades
​of The Leesburg Fire Department Station

Give a click to fade back to then and now
Photo taken sometime during 1950s by Dick Camnitz Dad
A Sincere Thanks goes to Dick Camnitz for sharing his family photo to Historic Lake County Facebook Community, and letting us Fade it.
And again we Thank Clay Conner for his assistance with location.
Click to see a Now & Then Fade
Leesburg Fire station still standing at the Southwest corner Magnolia and Canal Streets, Leesburg. FloridaMemoryProject photo.
Inspired by Gerry Hemingway Howell Facebook Share back in 2013.
Gerry is no longer with us, but will be missed and remembered forever as a Contributor to FloridaPast history throughout the Facebook Communities.

The Old Leesburg High School
As it was Then in the 1940s

click to see what it looks like now and then and back again
Click to see a Nice Now & Then Fade
From what we know, the original section of this Architectural Masterpiece, was built in 1911, and the larger center building, 1927, with continuing additions.
By clicking this line, it will take you to to a thread about this school on Historic Lake County Facebook Community
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You'll see a few local folks giving their stories surrounding the history of the school.
We also found another Great Thread about the history of this school. Click this line to take you to that thread share on Historic Lake County Facebook Page

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Pop Preston's Coca-Cola Lunch Stand, 5th Street, Leesburg
We Faded this Cool Image, in the Exact Spot Pop Once Was
With Much Appreciation for all the help from Clay Conner for setting this fade

click image to visit with Pop
Pop Preston & Tom Lynch Sr at Preston's Snack Bar Leesburg FloridaPast 1950s era

BIG BASS MOTEL - 1950s era - Highway 27, Leesburg - Home of the Big Bass

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What it once was, isn't - Click to Visit Now & Then

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The Opening Year of The Leesburg State Bank on Main Street - 1926

Click to Fade Back to 1926
Click on the image for a NOW & THEN FADE

Stepping back to the year 1926, upon completion of the New Leesburg State Bank, Downtown Leesburg, FloridaPast.

Since history has already been documented, by Historian Rick Reed of Lake County, we borrowed some to share here and more interesting history can be found at source link below;

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“The first bank was the Leesburg and County State Bank, which later became the Leesburg State Bank,” stated the Legend of Leesburg accompanying the mural. “This bank closed its doors in the 1933 depression.”
"It began as a private bank in 1886 with the name of Morrison, Stapylton & Co., Bankers. Until then, there was no bank in Leesburg. People with cash on hand used one of the grocery stores, usually Baer and Campbell, a general store at Fourth and Main streets that had a safe." continued...

Please give credit to Rick Reed, and Visit his article in the Daily Commercial to learn more ->
http://www.dailycommercial.com/lifestyles/article_29dc4550-2021-5b1b-890a-6c4bb69d5be0.html

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Griner's Standard Oil Company
Crown Gasoline Station
1920s era, at the corner of Main and Canal streets, Leesburg Florida 1920

Click for a Now & Then View
Special Thanks to FloridaMemoryProject for sharing Florida State Archives Photos

The Steamer Alligator - Docked at Leesburg Canal, off of North Canal Street 1906

Click to see where she was docked in Leesburg
Just three years before her fate in 1909, when she burned
The Alligator was constructed for Captain C. W. Howard for use in a commercial passenger and freight operation on the Ocklawaha and St. Johns rivers. On October 7, 1888, Alligator was launched on the west bank of St. Johns River at Norwalk. It measured 57 feet (17 m) long, 18 feet 7 inches wide, 3 feet 5 inches deep, and was 27.71 gross tons. Originally, a propeller was installed between two skegs under the transom. The vessel was "a patchwork of parts from other steamboats" - "During the final decades of the 19th century and early in the 20th century, small paddlesteamers transported freight and tourists back and forth between the upper areas of Florida to the headwaters of lakes in north central Florida.In 1888, Captain Howard added the Alligator to his small fleet of vessels that ran on the St. Johns and Ocklawaha rivers providing passenger and freight service.

The Wade brothers bought Alligator on September 9, 1889 and a year later they sold it to Joseph Edward Lucas who owned the steamboat during most of the time of its operation. When Lucas purchased the steamer he ran a small passenger and freight business out of Palatka, Florida.


In April 1891, Clarence Bloomfield Moore contracted with Lucas to use the steamer to explore the St. Johns River and tributaries for his archeological exploration for Native American artifacts. Moore used the paddlesteamer as his base of operation for his annual field work each year between 1891 and 1895. Moore kept a detailed log of his research that notes the travel of the Alligator during his excursions. In 1895, the Jacksonville Florida Times Union noted Moore's final excursion on the Alligator reporting that Moore accompanied by a crew from the Academy of Natural Sciences were exploring Indian mounds along the Ocklawaha"
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Around midnight on November 5, 1909, the steamer caught fire, burned, and sank. A wreck report written on November 20, 1909, indicates that fire occurred with only two watchmen aboard and there were no human injuries. The written record is inexact about the location where the steamer is submerged due to poor handwriting. There is no indication from searches of written records such as Certificate of Enrollment that the wreck was recovered and put back into service again"
Please credit above history, and read more here -> STEAMBOAT ALLIGATOR HISTORY 

Please credit following history, and read more about the Alligator here -> HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD;
C.W. Howard of Grahamville. Florida
Shipwrecked, Crescent Lake, Crescent City vicinity, Putnam County, Florida
(Any remains ofthe vessel most likely lie on the east side of Crescent
Lake, which is in Flagler County.) 
Vessel launched October 7, 1888 at Norwalk, Florida; rebuilt several times
thereafter until loss by fire in November 1909"
"The vessel was an inboard paddle-wheel steamboat, a form nearly unique
to the narrow, winding Ocklawaha River in Florida. There were never
many such vessels, but for a half-century after the Civil War, they played
a vital role in commerce and settlement of interior north-central Florida
(the Ocklawaha watershed). Before good roads and the coming ofthe
railroad to the region, they were a primary means oftravel and freight
transportation into and out ofthe area. In the late 1800s, they played an
important role in the development of wintertime tourism in Florida,
providing overnight passage on the "weird and beautiful" Ocklawaha to
Silver Springs. In effect, they were the state's first major tourist
attraction. ALLIGATOR was typical ofthe Ocklawaha steamboats, but
she also played a unique and historically significant role in being the boat
Clarence B. Moore chartered between 1891-95 during his archaeological
explorations on the St. Johns and Ocklawaha rivers."





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COOKE BALL PARK - LEESBURG, FloridaPast in 1910

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Click to visit this baseball game, where is once was
"Cooke Field was a baseball stadium located in Leesburg, Florida. The stadium was named after R.F.E. Cooke, a local banker, and had been the site of local baseball games. In 1922, the stadium was refurbished and the Philadelphia Phillies held their spring training there from 1922 until 1924.
According to news reports at the time, the refurbishment called for the field to be "cleared, leveled, clayed and sodded, a grandstand and a board fence built, all in less than three months." Reports also state that the city even had to cut down trees southwest of center field and fill in a big hollow in another corner." 
Please give all history credit, and read more here -> 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooke_Field
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“Our team played Eustis, and other towns, and The Fort Dade team, U.S. Army boys was here three games I think between 1909 and 1911. Uncle Herbert Hardman played on this team, and he kept yelling ‘get him off my back’ and my grandfather Hardman who was very precise in his language asked him later why he kept saying that when there was no one ‘on his back.’ This team had a player, Dick Whittington, who claimed to be a lineal descendant of the Dick Whittington who visited the Queen in London, with his pet cat which dispersed the rats, and he became Lord Mayor of London. Dick kept in touch with our family for several years, but we finally lost track of him.”
Credit entire above history text, and visit to read some Very Interesting Baseball History for Leesburg here ->  http://www.dailycommercial.com/lifestyles/article_6a983168-8820-5a34-8082-1a54e37c7978.html 

Thanks to Rick Reed for his dedication to the preservation of Lake County History - You can find Rick's columns here ->  http://www.dailycommercial.com/users/profile/rick%20reed/

The Old Heights Hotel on High Street Leesburg

Click to see a Fitting-Fade
1910s era, here on High Street, Leesburg. Built by Florida Conference College

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Vote for James Boyte Political Poster Leesburg
Original Political Campaign Poster from Leesburg.
Vote for James D. (Jimmy) Boyte.

If interested in purchasing this historical find, click on Mr. Boyte.
He'll take you to a page where you can buy.

Don't forget our GoFundMe Campaign. This would be a Nice Addition to the Lake County Historical Society on Your Behalf. The More Funding, the More You "Preserve Yesterday, Today, for Our Tomorrow"

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Hester's Drive Inn Restaurant 1954
Main Street Leesburg

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Another time, another moment, click it, to experience it

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1930s Hotel Magnolia
Now & Then Fade

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Love that water tower

Magnolia Hotel demolition Leesburg Florida July 28 1971

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Thanks to FloridaMemoryProject for the use of their photographs. For without, there would be no proof of what was once here, standing tall and proud.
This is the original Check-In - Check-Out Desk Blotter from Magnolia Hotel
To Purchase this Historic Piece, click on any of the two images. You'll be taken to the page where you can buy. There will be more photos shown.
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Hester's Drive Inn Restaurant 1957
Main Street Leesburg

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See it Then and Now by clicking on photo

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1958 Magnolia Hotels' 50th Anniversary

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Party Time in Leesburg
This was a tough fade to create. Because of the Goo Goo mapping, some fades just cannot be a Fitting-Fade. 

Magnolia Hotel, was one of Leesburgs' most prestigious hotels during it's life span.
Frequented by many a traveler, from the seasonal traveler to the famous.
This is one of a few fades we'll be doing for this once magnificent hotel. 
Unfortunately, the Magnolia met it's demise, via the bulldozer and dump truck, July 28th, 1971.
We have a fade of that day too.

One early morning, back in the 1930s.
Magnolia Hotel is quiet.

Click to see a Now and Then
One quiet morning, on Magnolia Ave.
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Palms Motel of Leesburg, FloridaPast - A Classic Roadside Moment Captured, early 1970s, along U.S. 27 aka 14th Street. Owners were Mr. and Mrs. Phillip F. Kissell

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The once famed South Wind Trading Post
Lady Lake - FloridaPast
Indian Moccasins - Alligator Goods - Citrus - Souvenirs and More

Click to visit a Now & Then Fade
This Fade will show the old Trading Post on Google
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Business Card Jesse & Johnny Edwards
Click to visit what once was and now isn't
This Fade no longer shows the Trading Post - It's a medical facility at this time
Clicking on either image will take you to our famed Now & Then FloridaPast Fades. At the time of placement, Google still had the old Trading Post on their map, and the second fade was an updated view, where the Trading Post is now a medical center.
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Once owned and operated Jesse and Johnny Edwards, who were Brothers. They sold everything from Florida citrus, which they also shipped, alligator goods, souvenirs, sea shells, Western leather goods, Chenille blankets and products, also known for having the best deerskin moccasins.
We personally visited and shopped at this Trading Post. They had some Wonderful FloridaPast Offerings. Some Unique Souvenirs, Seashells and other Interesting Goodies.

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Hewitt's drug store
The BiGGest Little Drug Store in the World

607 East Main Street in Leesburg

Lake County Historian, Clay Conner shares this with us;
"Hewitt's drug store was located at 607 East Main Street in Leesburg. The store was owned and operated by John Monroe "Jack" Hewitt Jr. And his wife, Hazel Harris Hewitt. Born in 1908, Jack Hewitt served in the Navy in World War II. Hazel was born in 19
12. In this photograph from around 1950, notice the sign on the front door, letting patrons know that Jack and Hazel went out to lunch. Stokes Seafood can be seen directly next door to the left in the photo with last S visible and poultry on the window.. Location would be where the parking garage is now across the street from RoMac."
Follow This Link -> to Visit Historic Lake County Florida Facebook Thread, and read some local Folks' stories.
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Once The Biggest Little Drug Store in the World - Sad seeing all the Main St. Building demolished for a silly parking garage....

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GROVELAND
as it was, as it is

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Groveland Railroad Depot photo that I took 5-21-25
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As of this google snip, this wonderful railroad depot still stands. Though it's in the winds of being demolished.
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Our Fade-Over from then till now in color
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Fade-Over in black and white

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Sign For Sale Click for Info
Original Road Sign Indicator for Lake County - South Clermont - For Sale - Click on Sign for Details

Clermont Florida
"The Gem of the Hills"
founded in 1884 and incorporated in 1916

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Take a stroll over to Architectural Past to learn some first hand history and see some interesting photos on and around Clermont. Well Worth the Visit

Lake Drugs - aka Edge Mercantile
Highway 50, Main Avenue, Groveland

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CLICK ON IMAGE FOR Now & Then "Fade"
Around 1898, E.E. Edge purchased the Crenshaw holdings south of Lake Louisa, and before the end of 1917 county commissioners appointed Hon. L.D. Edge , of Groveland H.L Johnson, and S.S. Fesler as a commission to have charge of the preliminary work of draining the marsh. This is what Steve Rajtar wrote for the Groveland Mascotte Historical Trail: "The severe freezes in 1894-95 hurt the citrus industry, and this area of Lake County turned to turpentine. T.M. and C.C. Taylor sold their turpentine still in the southern portion of the county and went to Mascotte, planning to start tapping pine trees with a crew of black laborers. However, since Mascotte had never had a black resident, town leader Theodore Ruff refused to let the Taylors set up shop.

The Taylors then followed the railroad eastward to a place they named Taylorville, and erected a still on the lot where later L. Day Edge built his home. His father, Elliott E. Edge, bought out the Taylors in 1899 and laid out the foundation of a town."

The Edge Mercantile Company was founded in 1904 by Elliott E. Edge, and was later operated by his son, L. Day Edge. They bought and sold whatever the public wanted, from trinkets to farm implements. In about 1911, the community was renamed Groveland because of the citrus groves to the east and south of the town. The elder Edge was the town's first mayor and a founder of the Lake County Historical Society.

This building was erected in 1923. One of its earliest tenants was the Lake Drug Co. Much of the details of the building are obscured by the wide overhang, but you can still see the crest with the name of the building and the year of its construction."
{Much Thanks again to Clay Conner and Gerry Howell}

R.C. BARNES
Western Auto Store
GROVELAND - FloridaPast

R.C. Barnes Western Auto Store GROVELAN - Knock on the door to enter yesteryear
Tap the Peddle Tractor for a fade back in time

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Clermont - Groveland Elks Lodge No. 1849
Click this line to visit the Clermont Groveland Elks' Lodge website

The Publix Super Market

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Click the Publix Clock to "fade" back in time
The Publix Supermarket, has kind of an interesting history.
It still stands, but unfortunately, it has been remodeled.
Clermont Publix 1958.
"This is a hodgepodge of info from different and at times conflicting sources. I put it together best I could per my logic. If anyone has any corrections to this please fill me in.
(come to our FloridaPast.com Facebook Page)
As per my research and opinion and better judgement, this was the first Publix Supermarket in to be built outside of Winter Haven. In 1945, with construction expansion constrained by wartime shortages, Publix purchased a chain of 19 small All American grocery stores. One of these was in Clermont down the street from this location where Hanks Electric currently is. After the war this store was built and opened in 1948 and stayed at this location until the new South Lake Plaza opened in 1965. Upon completion this building was donated by George Jenkins, founder of Publix, as a Civic Auditorium. Chamber of Commerce offices were added as well an unfortunate significant remodel stripping the building of its art deco facade. The building opened in 1966 as Jenkins Civic Auditorium named for George Jenkins. Info courtesy Publix.com and "Clermont Gem of the Hills, A History of Clermont, Florida and Neighboring. Communities, Miriam W. Johnson & Rosemary Y. Young"
Thanks to Clay Conner for supplying this history.

Another View - Publix Super Market
Montrose Street, Clermont, FloridaPast

Publix Clermont FloridaPast
"fade" back to Now n Then - Just click the door
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Train Depot in Groveland, Florida - Once The Orange Belt Railway Depot Station, then acquired by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Later used for the citrus industry, and finally it was abandoned.
"Near the close of the War Between the States, Daniel Sloan, a former Confederate Cavalry Lieutenant, homesteaded land which was later to become part of Groveland. He erected a log cabin, which is still standing, farmed and raised cattle. In 1887, the end of the frontier days was heralded by the arrival of the Sanford and St. Petersburg line of the Orange Belt Railroad and its little wood burning engine. With the railroad, came more settlers and during that same year this section of Lake County was created from part of Sumter County." 
[credit Cyleta Lee Austin, Historian Emeritus, Groveland, 
Florida] Read more here -> http://groveland-fl.gov/about-2/history/

Clervue Drive-In Theater, Clermont, FloridaPast
once at the intersection of Highway 27 and State Road 50
Closed in the 1970's decade

CLICK THIS IMAGE FOR A NOW & THEN FADE
Click image for a Now & Then Fitting-Fade
1956 Highway 27 & SR 50 Intersection - FloridaMemoryProject photo
What still remains from this once popular hot spot, is the marquee, which has been used by various businesses through the years.
Click image to visit a Now & Then Fade
Click to Visit The Torchlite Travel Trailer Park Entrance US Highway 27 - 1960s
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Take a Faded Moment back to the Torchlite on Highway 27, Now & Then, by clicking on the image to your left. Amazing that through all the progression in this area of Clermont, that this place still exists today.

Highway 27 Roadside Ma and Pa Hotel - Motel - Eateries n More

The Skyline Motel, directly across Highway 27 from the Famed Citrus Tower. Another Great Share by Clay Conner, that is now a Now & Then Fade. Just click on the image for the sad view of what's there now.
Follow the original Historic Lake County Florida Facebook Group Here
Click for a Now & Then Fade
Click to Fade from then till now 1960s

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Two Great Now & Then Fades
​of The George A. Simpson Lunch Boat

These two Now & Then Fades, would not have been possible, had it not been for the kind help of our Facebook Friends, Clay Conner and Frank Driggers
If you click on either of those kind Gent's names, it'll take you to each of these Fades that were shared on FloridaPast.com Facebook Page.
​A Sincere Thanks goes to both!
Klick 4 a then, now and back again Fade
Click on the boat to visit where is once stood
Click for another Now & Then Fade
This is as close as a Fade as we can get - Give a Click
The George A. Simpson Lunch Boat, aka S.S. Three Kids, at the intersection of Tavares, Mount Dora and Eustis Roads, was a pleasure steamer which sailed the waters of Lake County FloridaPast. Formerly, The Three Kids was used as Dreamboat night club in 1935. It was originally built by William Bennett Baker and later bought by George A. Simpson who renamed the Dreamboat and had it moved here for a gas station, diner and Coca-Cola stand. As we gather more history, we'll add it here.
Clay Conner tells us;      ->
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It is the Three Kids when it was a residence with a roof built over it. Before they moved it and turned it into the Lunch Boat / Dreamboat."
This boat was re-shared on Historic Lake County Facebook Group. CLICK HERE TO READ SOME FIRST HAND HISTORY

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External Lake County Links;
City of Clermont/I Love Clermont Facebook/FloridaPast.com Facebook/Groveland History/J.J. Dickison Home at Bugg Spring - Okahumpka, Florida
Clayton's Architectural Past of Clermont/History of South Lake Chamber of Commerce Clermont/

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