Visions, Fades and History of Saint Augustine
William J. Harris' Hand Colored Photograph of the City Gates in Saint Augustine FloridaPast
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1890s Engraving of The Alcazar Hotel in St. Augustine, FloridaPast
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One of our Top Five WhatWasInThere Now & Then Fades
Inside The Famed Alcazar Hotel
1859 Bathing Pool in the Casino of the Alcazar - Click for a Great Now & Then Fade [Lib. Congress photo]
Time to board the ship, going back to 1565
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on El Galeón Ship Saint Augustine FloridaPast
Give a click to go on board the El Galeon
The date is September the 8th, 1565 when this image was created of Pedro Menendez de Aviles. Since there are but few actual images of Menendez, we had to use what was available for our WhatWasInThere Fades. We placed in the most appropriate place on board the tall ship, El Galeón, which is a replica of a Spanish galleon from the colonial period. Docked by the Bridge of Lions in St. Augustine when not traveling the high seas to other places around the country and throughout the world.
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Click on Pedro Menedez to go visit our Fade
Another depiction of Pedro Menendez de Aviles from 1565, which after we searched the El Galeon, found this to be the best place for him.
__ When you visit our WhatWasInThere Fades of Menendez, after you view the Fade, you'll find a small X on the Fade Window. {to the right of "Details", Click that x, and now you'll see an arrow on the map. As you click that arrow, it will take you throughout the El Galeon. A Very Interesting Tour to state the least. |
For those of you that can visit this Historical Ship that is sometimes docked in Saint Augustine, here is the address;
El Galeón Tall Ship at 111 Avenida Menendez, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, right next to the Bridge of Lions.
We borrowed some history from Visit St. Augustine to share here;
"The first historical ship like El Galeón to arrive in St. Augustine was the San Pelayo, the flagship of city founder Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. It was one of the most powerful ships of its day, weighing some 650 tons and carrying 800 colonists and supplies. Menéndez and his colonists established St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in the United States, in 1565."
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We borrowed the history about the El Galeon to share for educational purposes;
"17th Century Spanish Galleon Replica. During a period longer than three centuries (16th to 18th), Galleons were the boats that took the lead role in the trade and cultural routes named the Indies fl¬eets. These were the longest routes in length and also lasted longer than any other in navigation history.El Galeon was built during 2009 to 2010 by the Nao Victoria Foundation. Designed and developed by Ignacio Fernández Vial at the Punta Umbria shipyard (Huelva, Spain), the boat was launched on November 30th, 2009 and then the masts were added at the beginning of 2010. El Galeon has covered more than 48,000 nautical miles between 2010 to 2016 along the world’s largest seas and oceans, visiting ports in four continents and participating in many cultural projects. El Galeon has sailed across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Southern China Sea, the Aegean Sea, the Bosporus Strait and the Caribbean Sea. So far, visitors have been able to step on her decks in almost hundred ports all over the world."
Give All History Credit too, and for you folks that cannot visit when the El Galeon when it's docked in St. Augustine,
here is a link to the scheduling of where it will be docked throughout the world.
El Galeón Tall Ship at 111 Avenida Menendez, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, right next to the Bridge of Lions.
We borrowed some history from Visit St. Augustine to share here;
"The first historical ship like El Galeón to arrive in St. Augustine was the San Pelayo, the flagship of city founder Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. It was one of the most powerful ships of its day, weighing some 650 tons and carrying 800 colonists and supplies. Menéndez and his colonists established St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement in the United States, in 1565."
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We borrowed the history about the El Galeon to share for educational purposes;
"17th Century Spanish Galleon Replica. During a period longer than three centuries (16th to 18th), Galleons were the boats that took the lead role in the trade and cultural routes named the Indies fl¬eets. These were the longest routes in length and also lasted longer than any other in navigation history.El Galeon was built during 2009 to 2010 by the Nao Victoria Foundation. Designed and developed by Ignacio Fernández Vial at the Punta Umbria shipyard (Huelva, Spain), the boat was launched on November 30th, 2009 and then the masts were added at the beginning of 2010. El Galeon has covered more than 48,000 nautical miles between 2010 to 2016 along the world’s largest seas and oceans, visiting ports in four continents and participating in many cultural projects. El Galeon has sailed across the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Southern China Sea, the Aegean Sea, the Bosporus Strait and the Caribbean Sea. So far, visitors have been able to step on her decks in almost hundred ports all over the world."
Give All History Credit too, and for you folks that cannot visit when the El Galeon when it's docked in St. Augustine,
here is a link to the scheduling of where it will be docked throughout the world.
Interesting website that gives us the
"40 Key Moments in St. Augustine's History"
1) Pre-15th century: The Tiumuca Indians live along the East Coast of Florida and Georgia.
"40 Key Moments in St. Augustine's History"
1) Pre-15th century: The Tiumuca Indians live along the East Coast of Florida and Georgia.
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The Monson Hotel - Saint Augustine
Visit the Famed Monson Hotel as it was in 1910
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Platter from The Monson Hotel Click to our Buy It Now Page
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Since the history of the Monson House aka Monson Hotel, later the Monson Motor Lodge, has been well documented,
we borrowed a few paragraphs to share;
"This first house burned in an 1895 fire. The second Monson House was located at 26 Bay Street next to Brava Lane. Open all year, the rates were $1.50 to $2.00 per day with $7.00 to 12.00 per week. Residents could enjoy hot and cold baths. The hotel was again enlarged in 1901 and in 1912, when the capacity was advertised at 75. The final wooden hotel fell victim to the April 1914 fire that started at the Florida House and destroyed everything from Saint George Street to the Bay. The fire claimed four hotels, the opera house, the courthouse, and countless homes and businesses. The Monson was replaced by a masonry structure that opened on January 5, 1915. Monson died later that year, and his brother-in-law Charles E Young Sr became manager of the new hotel"
"The Monson was enlarged in 1916 with an addition to the south side that almost doubled its size. The Monson Hotel remained a fixture on Saint Augustine's bay front until 1960, when it was demolished and replaced by the Monson Motor Lodge. That structure was eventually razed as well, and in 2003 reopened as the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. It remains under Hilton's management today, with 72 rooms spread over 19 small buildings. During excavations prior to construction of the Hilton's underground parking garage, archeologists found evidence of colonial foundations from Saint Augustine's British Period (1763–1784)"
please give entire history text credit, and visit the source here ->MONSON MOTOR LODGE
we borrowed a few paragraphs to share;
"This first house burned in an 1895 fire. The second Monson House was located at 26 Bay Street next to Brava Lane. Open all year, the rates were $1.50 to $2.00 per day with $7.00 to 12.00 per week. Residents could enjoy hot and cold baths. The hotel was again enlarged in 1901 and in 1912, when the capacity was advertised at 75. The final wooden hotel fell victim to the April 1914 fire that started at the Florida House and destroyed everything from Saint George Street to the Bay. The fire claimed four hotels, the opera house, the courthouse, and countless homes and businesses. The Monson was replaced by a masonry structure that opened on January 5, 1915. Monson died later that year, and his brother-in-law Charles E Young Sr became manager of the new hotel"
"The Monson was enlarged in 1916 with an addition to the south side that almost doubled its size. The Monson Hotel remained a fixture on Saint Augustine's bay front until 1960, when it was demolished and replaced by the Monson Motor Lodge. That structure was eventually razed as well, and in 2003 reopened as the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. It remains under Hilton's management today, with 72 rooms spread over 19 small buildings. During excavations prior to construction of the Hilton's underground parking garage, archeologists found evidence of colonial foundations from Saint Augustine's British Period (1763–1784)"
please give entire history text credit, and visit the source here ->MONSON MOTOR LODGE
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Castillo de San Marcos - Fort Marion Saint Augustine
WhatWasInThere Now & Then Fades
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Civil War Soldier at entrance to Fort Marion St Augustine FloridaPast
Give a click for a Perfect Fitting-Fade, as we walk the planks through Fort Marion, Saint Augustine, FloridaPast
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OSCEOLAS' PRISON CELL
click to go inside the walls of San Marcos, and Fade a Now & Then
DEPICTION OF OSCEOLA IN A PRISON CELL
Native American Prisoners Within The Walls of The Fort. Saint Augustine - Click to Fade Back Then & Now
The above Photograph credit goes to the Yale Collection of Western Americana
Civil War Troops with Artillery in Fort Marion Saint Augustine, Click for a WhatWasInThere Fade
Library of Congress photo
Medicine Water and His Wife Mocchi
Accompanied by Romeo, the Cheyenne interpreter
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in native costume confined in Fort Marion Saint Augustine Florida 1876 NYPL photo
October 21, 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt visits the Castillo St. Augustine
Another WhatWasInThere Now & Then Fade
President Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech within the walls of Castillo - click on image to go inside the walls
Above photo and below History text credit goes to; Castillo de San Marcos National Monument -
During his visit the president gave the following speech:
At ST. Augustine, FLA., OCT. 21, 1905.
Mr. Chairman, and you, my fellow citizens:
It is indeed a great pleasure to be in your beautiful and this old historic city.
The last time I was down in Florida it was with my regiment.
We were going to Tampa, and I met your chairman at that time. He was in the Florida regiment, and, of course,
that was strictly a business trip, and I didn't have any chance to look about and enjoy anything.
Now I am here for other reasons. I am here now partly for my own enjoyment and partly that I may have the chance to see you and greet you.
Since I have been President, when I have finished this trip, I will have spoken in every State in the Union, during my Presidency. I feel that every President whose duties permit it should welcome the chance to go about as often as he can in all the different parts of our country, because, my friends, the President of the United States, if he is faithful to his oath of office, is President of no party, no class, no section; he is the President of all the people. During my period of the last four years I have been from one end of this country to the other, across from ocean to ocean, from the Canadian line to the Gulf. I have addressed many audiences and I cannot too often say that the thing that impresses me most is,
not the differences between one American and another, but the fundamental underlying likeness amongst all of us.
And I think that the average American is a pretty good man, and the one thing necessary to make him on good terms with the other average American is that they know each other if they have a chance of meeting their fellows, and I find that there is very little difference.
Now fortunately we 'are past, long past, the time of division, and there are no sectional lines. We must look to it and see that no other lines of division of quite as undesirable character be drawn. In our great industrial civilization which wealth produces it is inevitable that there should grow up some men of wealth who use their wealth not in desirable ways and at the same time some men who do not get any wealth and would incline to envy those who do. Now this country of ours, or any Republic, cannot afford to see grow up within itself elements or anything in any way approaching to lines drawn as between class and class, or between caste and caste.
In the past no republics have been born for the rich only, and the most potent factor in bringing about the downfall of each has almost always been the growth of a spirit of loyalty to this class instead of loyalty to the nation as a whole.* The minute that these republics develop rich men who will look down on the poor, and poor and envious men who hate and wish for the disposal of the rich ; the minute that those classes develop in any republic, the day of that republic's downfall is near at hand, and it makes not the slightest difference in the end whether it was the rich man who looked down on the poor man or the poor man who envied the rich man. If either side arose and by trampling on the rights and perverting the institutions of the republic and the welfare of the people as a whole, if either class thus arose, the republic was at an end.
My belief in the destiny of this great nation is strong and fixed because I believe that our people will never permit such a spirit to grow up in their hearts. This republic is not, and never shall, be the government of a plutocracy. This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a mob. It shall remain as it was founded in the beginning, a government of justice, through the forms of law, a government wherein every man, rich or poor, is given justice and equal rights, where each man is guaranteed in his own rights, and is opposed to wrong.
Here in the Southland, in every city throughout this great country, I meet men in every audience who have fought in the Civil War, have fought in the great war. We are fortunate, my friends, in the fact that now we are in every part so thoroughly reunited, and we have the right and claim as our own, the honor of this country by every man who in that great trouble did his duty as light was given him to see his duty, without regard as to whether or not he wore the blue or the gray. Now, I want to appeal to the experiences of the men of the Civil War, and their experience in war will tell them the truth of what I am saying to you should be our proper attitude in time of peace. To you, my friend, down there, when you were in the war, it was a great thing to have your "bunkie" a game man, and as long as he did his duty and went out to fight it didn't matter if he stood firm. That if you were ordered up you didn't have to go looking out for him to see that he was there, and follow this man up to see that he fought. You didn't care the slightest degree how he worshiped his God or whether he was well off or not, but whether he was a man and a true man.
It is exactly the same thing now in civil life. If we permit ourselves to draw a line of distinction between men, to judge them harshly or leniently, because of their social standing and their wealth, or because they are our favorites, or because of their great influence on outside circumstances we are false to our principles of American citizens.
If he is a straight man we should be for him, and if he is a crooked man we should be against him.
Now, about what are the qualities that make good citizenship ? They are not very difficult qualities. It is not always easy to develop the proper point, but there is nothing wonderful in the way of genius, or even of cleverness needed to bring out qualities which we all of us recognize as essential to the man with whom we want to deal in our ordinary affairs. In the first place, if a man is to be a good citizen he has got to have as a basis to his character, honesty and decency.
The sort that will make him act fairly by his neighbor, the sort that will make him do his duty in his community, and to make his name in the community before he goes to the State.
We cannot afford to accept any other quality as a substitute for honesty,
and one of the least desirable traits sometimes shown among our people is a tendency to be one that makes gain unaccompanied by the moral sense, exercised without scruple.
Realize that a man if crooked and not a fool is the worse for the entire community. We don't have much difficulty with a crooked fool. But the crooked man who has got a good deal more than the average amount of sense will cause a lot of trouble. It.is not the scoundrel who fails, but it is the scoundrel who succeeds who interests us.
here are many very healthy developments in this country and there are more that are not so healthy, and among the last of them is the growth of a spirit which is warped.
Now we can say, I think, that the first thing in a man is that he should have a courage. I find that it is indispensable for me or almost anyone that he is able to form his own opinion. I have no use for the laborer who works solely on a manual ground on his own account. I want to see the man able to support those dependent upon him and to educate his children, so that the whole united community are benefited by it, and we insist upon the applying of the proper amount of success following men in the community, not merely in what he has made, but by what he has done.
Now then, as I was saying, the first quality needed in good citizenship is honesty. Just exactly as in the war, the men in your regiment had to be men devoted to the cause, devoted to right and men willing to give their lives or their devotion if need be. The men possessed with the idea of patriotism. But honesty by itself is not enough, no one quality is enough. It does not make any difference how honest he is if he is stingy. That man is not much use in a democratic community. No use here. Our community is a rough-and-tumble community. So, in addition to honesty, we must have another virtue, courage. The courage that in time of need will show up our honesty. We must have that courage that will do right even if sneered at or laughed at, the courage that will refuse to be bought and that will refuse to be bullied. The courage that will never betray the people's cause and the courage that will refuse to go with popular clamor if that popular clamor is wrong. I want to say, remember this, that if you go to a man and he says that if the people want it he will do something that is wrong in their interests, you can make up your minds you have got a man who,
if he takes up his own interests, will do something wrong to the people in his own interests. .
Some years ago I lived out in the West, out in the cow country, on a cattle ranch, in a land where there were no fences; where we had cowboys and branding irons to supply these fences. Each cow was branded with the owner's mark, an unwritten law of the West, and if you had an unbranded yearling you put the brand of your own ranch on. I told my cowboy to put an owner's brand on one of his calves, and he said he didn't have his branding iron, but he would put mine on. I said,
You go back and get your time." He said, "Why, that is your iron." "Yes," I said, "that is my iron, but if you will steal for me you will steal from me."
If you get any man who is willing to do wrong for you, if it is to his interests, he will do wrong to you.
So that you need honest and courageous men, both in order that a man may make a good citizen.
And those two are not enough. We do not care how honest a man is and how brave he is, if he is a natural-born fool you can't do anything with him.
Honesty and courage you will need, with the saving grace of common sense.
If you have got those qualities in the average man, self-government is a success. If the average man does not have them then no device will supply their place.
And men and women of Florida, I believe in the future of this country, in your future, in our future,
because I believe that the average American has got exactly those three qualities of honesty, courage and common sense.
During his visit the president gave the following speech:
At ST. Augustine, FLA., OCT. 21, 1905.
Mr. Chairman, and you, my fellow citizens:
It is indeed a great pleasure to be in your beautiful and this old historic city.
The last time I was down in Florida it was with my regiment.
We were going to Tampa, and I met your chairman at that time. He was in the Florida regiment, and, of course,
that was strictly a business trip, and I didn't have any chance to look about and enjoy anything.
Now I am here for other reasons. I am here now partly for my own enjoyment and partly that I may have the chance to see you and greet you.
Since I have been President, when I have finished this trip, I will have spoken in every State in the Union, during my Presidency. I feel that every President whose duties permit it should welcome the chance to go about as often as he can in all the different parts of our country, because, my friends, the President of the United States, if he is faithful to his oath of office, is President of no party, no class, no section; he is the President of all the people. During my period of the last four years I have been from one end of this country to the other, across from ocean to ocean, from the Canadian line to the Gulf. I have addressed many audiences and I cannot too often say that the thing that impresses me most is,
not the differences between one American and another, but the fundamental underlying likeness amongst all of us.
And I think that the average American is a pretty good man, and the one thing necessary to make him on good terms with the other average American is that they know each other if they have a chance of meeting their fellows, and I find that there is very little difference.
Now fortunately we 'are past, long past, the time of division, and there are no sectional lines. We must look to it and see that no other lines of division of quite as undesirable character be drawn. In our great industrial civilization which wealth produces it is inevitable that there should grow up some men of wealth who use their wealth not in desirable ways and at the same time some men who do not get any wealth and would incline to envy those who do. Now this country of ours, or any Republic, cannot afford to see grow up within itself elements or anything in any way approaching to lines drawn as between class and class, or between caste and caste.
In the past no republics have been born for the rich only, and the most potent factor in bringing about the downfall of each has almost always been the growth of a spirit of loyalty to this class instead of loyalty to the nation as a whole.* The minute that these republics develop rich men who will look down on the poor, and poor and envious men who hate and wish for the disposal of the rich ; the minute that those classes develop in any republic, the day of that republic's downfall is near at hand, and it makes not the slightest difference in the end whether it was the rich man who looked down on the poor man or the poor man who envied the rich man. If either side arose and by trampling on the rights and perverting the institutions of the republic and the welfare of the people as a whole, if either class thus arose, the republic was at an end.
My belief in the destiny of this great nation is strong and fixed because I believe that our people will never permit such a spirit to grow up in their hearts. This republic is not, and never shall, be the government of a plutocracy. This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a mob. It shall remain as it was founded in the beginning, a government of justice, through the forms of law, a government wherein every man, rich or poor, is given justice and equal rights, where each man is guaranteed in his own rights, and is opposed to wrong.
Here in the Southland, in every city throughout this great country, I meet men in every audience who have fought in the Civil War, have fought in the great war. We are fortunate, my friends, in the fact that now we are in every part so thoroughly reunited, and we have the right and claim as our own, the honor of this country by every man who in that great trouble did his duty as light was given him to see his duty, without regard as to whether or not he wore the blue or the gray. Now, I want to appeal to the experiences of the men of the Civil War, and their experience in war will tell them the truth of what I am saying to you should be our proper attitude in time of peace. To you, my friend, down there, when you were in the war, it was a great thing to have your "bunkie" a game man, and as long as he did his duty and went out to fight it didn't matter if he stood firm. That if you were ordered up you didn't have to go looking out for him to see that he was there, and follow this man up to see that he fought. You didn't care the slightest degree how he worshiped his God or whether he was well off or not, but whether he was a man and a true man.
It is exactly the same thing now in civil life. If we permit ourselves to draw a line of distinction between men, to judge them harshly or leniently, because of their social standing and their wealth, or because they are our favorites, or because of their great influence on outside circumstances we are false to our principles of American citizens.
If he is a straight man we should be for him, and if he is a crooked man we should be against him.
Now, about what are the qualities that make good citizenship ? They are not very difficult qualities. It is not always easy to develop the proper point, but there is nothing wonderful in the way of genius, or even of cleverness needed to bring out qualities which we all of us recognize as essential to the man with whom we want to deal in our ordinary affairs. In the first place, if a man is to be a good citizen he has got to have as a basis to his character, honesty and decency.
The sort that will make him act fairly by his neighbor, the sort that will make him do his duty in his community, and to make his name in the community before he goes to the State.
We cannot afford to accept any other quality as a substitute for honesty,
and one of the least desirable traits sometimes shown among our people is a tendency to be one that makes gain unaccompanied by the moral sense, exercised without scruple.
Realize that a man if crooked and not a fool is the worse for the entire community. We don't have much difficulty with a crooked fool. But the crooked man who has got a good deal more than the average amount of sense will cause a lot of trouble. It.is not the scoundrel who fails, but it is the scoundrel who succeeds who interests us.
here are many very healthy developments in this country and there are more that are not so healthy, and among the last of them is the growth of a spirit which is warped.
Now we can say, I think, that the first thing in a man is that he should have a courage. I find that it is indispensable for me or almost anyone that he is able to form his own opinion. I have no use for the laborer who works solely on a manual ground on his own account. I want to see the man able to support those dependent upon him and to educate his children, so that the whole united community are benefited by it, and we insist upon the applying of the proper amount of success following men in the community, not merely in what he has made, but by what he has done.
Now then, as I was saying, the first quality needed in good citizenship is honesty. Just exactly as in the war, the men in your regiment had to be men devoted to the cause, devoted to right and men willing to give their lives or their devotion if need be. The men possessed with the idea of patriotism. But honesty by itself is not enough, no one quality is enough. It does not make any difference how honest he is if he is stingy. That man is not much use in a democratic community. No use here. Our community is a rough-and-tumble community. So, in addition to honesty, we must have another virtue, courage. The courage that in time of need will show up our honesty. We must have that courage that will do right even if sneered at or laughed at, the courage that will refuse to be bought and that will refuse to be bullied. The courage that will never betray the people's cause and the courage that will refuse to go with popular clamor if that popular clamor is wrong. I want to say, remember this, that if you go to a man and he says that if the people want it he will do something that is wrong in their interests, you can make up your minds you have got a man who,
if he takes up his own interests, will do something wrong to the people in his own interests. .
Some years ago I lived out in the West, out in the cow country, on a cattle ranch, in a land where there were no fences; where we had cowboys and branding irons to supply these fences. Each cow was branded with the owner's mark, an unwritten law of the West, and if you had an unbranded yearling you put the brand of your own ranch on. I told my cowboy to put an owner's brand on one of his calves, and he said he didn't have his branding iron, but he would put mine on. I said,
You go back and get your time." He said, "Why, that is your iron." "Yes," I said, "that is my iron, but if you will steal for me you will steal from me."
If you get any man who is willing to do wrong for you, if it is to his interests, he will do wrong to you.
So that you need honest and courageous men, both in order that a man may make a good citizen.
And those two are not enough. We do not care how honest a man is and how brave he is, if he is a natural-born fool you can't do anything with him.
Honesty and courage you will need, with the saving grace of common sense.
If you have got those qualities in the average man, self-government is a success. If the average man does not have them then no device will supply their place.
And men and women of Florida, I believe in the future of this country, in your future, in our future,
because I believe that the average American has got exactly those three qualities of honesty, courage and common sense.
Castillo-de-San-Marcos Watch-Tower
Saint Augustine, sometime during early 1950s
Click to go up on top of the Fort and view a Now & Then of WhatWasInThere
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The following are various captures of the Famed City Gates of Saint Augustine
Each are a Now & Then Fade when clicked
CAUSEWAY AND CITY GATES WITH THE MOAT
St. Augustine 1870s
Another Fitting-Fade Inspired by Jeff Davies Historic Florida X Facebook Community. NYPL PHOTO
"The Entrance Pillars/Gate, were built in 1743."
"It consists of two square pillars of coquina rock,
twenty feet in height, ten feet thick; walls are thirty feet in length and ten feet thick,
the space between the pillars is twelve feet and were protected with heavy iron bound gates, and
the approach was by way of a draw-bridge over the moat or ditch."
"It consists of two square pillars of coquina rock,
twenty feet in height, ten feet thick; walls are thirty feet in length and ten feet thick,
the space between the pillars is twelve feet and were protected with heavy iron bound gates, and
the approach was by way of a draw-bridge over the moat or ditch."
Horse & Rider rest at The City Gate Saint Augustine Florida 1886
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Old Spanish Gateway through the City Wall Saint Augustine FloridaPast 1905
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Saint Augustine City Gate sometime during the year 1889
Another Fade Inspired by Dr. Bronson St. Augustine History Facebook Share
Another Fade Inspired by Dr. Bronson St. Augustine History Facebook Share
Castillo de San Marcos - Fort Marion in the background
The following Now & Then Fade, was Inspired by this photo share from Kimberly Mintz to Historic Florida X Facebook Community
Boys posing for the camera at St. Augustine City Gates FloridaPast, with the Warden Villa in the background
The following photo shows us The Warden Villa as well
as seen through Saint Augustine's City Gate 1900, was Kindly Shared by Christopher Pitts to Historic Florida X Facebook Group
Warden Villa seen from Saint Augustine City Gate 1900
Thomas C. Elderton - The Hack Driver in Saint Augustine, 1895 Marilyn Webb Miller Watkins Mothers Maternal Grandfather
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Shadows upon The City Gates of Saint Augustine FloridaPast 1940s
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St. Augustine Florida's Governor, William Sherman Jennings, early 1900s
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The Green Sightseeing Tour Train coming through the gates 1950s
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City gates to Saint Augustine 1865
Probably one of the earliest images of this historic entrance
Just about a Perfect Fitting-Fade
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Dade Monuments Wahoo Swamp - St. Augustine - Dade Massacre was Dec. 28,1835
Dade Monuments - Five Miles From Wahoo Swamp
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Learn more here, well worth the visit and read -> St. Augustine National Cemetery – Dade Massacre
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The Old Sugar Mill Plantation 254 San Marco Ave. and Rd 16 - St. Augustine
SEE A WOW THEN & NOW FADE
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Another Fantastic Now & Then Fitting-Fade
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A few of St. Augustine's Hotels and Motels
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Monterey Court Motel - Then & Now Fade St. Augustine
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Once a popular destination for tourists coming to St. Augustine. Boasted that it faced Matanzas Bay, in the heart of Historic St. Augustine. Only a half block from Fort San Marcos. Having 33 air conditioned units, hot water heat and television. Also having tiled bathrooms with tubs. Plenty of parking, with restaurant adjacent. |
Still alive and well - click to give a visit
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The Hickory House Restaurant
East side of the Bridge of Lions, St. Augustine 1950s era
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At the end of the bridge, we stop in for dinner at the Hickory House Restaurant, sometime during the 1950s.
They were open daily, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Anything from steaks, chops and all kinds of fresh seafood. A nice variety of deserts, such as homemade pies. Pleasant atmosphere, air conditioned for your comfort. Close to all that Saint Augustine has to offer the tourists. The owners were Leonard and Alice Strauss |
Click and visit a nice fade-over-lay as it is today
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