Building the School of Nursing …
This is a photo of the foundation when they were constructing the Sacred Heart School of Nursing in around 1945 or 46. You cannot tell by looking at the building in the previous post, but the...
View ArticleThe Operation …
Here is another photo of an operation in progress from back in the 1940′s. It looks as if the surgeon has on some type of gloves, but neither he or the nurse has on any type of mask. Obviously this...
View ArticleFirst Methodist in Snow …
This photo was taken back in February 1957, when it snowed so hard and there were several inches on the ground for a day or so. Notice the snow on the roof of the church. I found this photo years...
View ArticleWreck on Highway 90 Leaving Milton Florida …
For those of you that travel Highway 90 or live in the Milton area are familiar with the bridge across Pond Creek. Well, I have found some negatives from a wreck that occurred at that bridge back in...
View ArticlePensacola Women’s Club Fashions …
I do not know who these ladies are or the year that these were taken, but it would have to be sometime in the 1950′s. This was taken before they started selling rolls of seamless white paper in 108″...
View ArticleLog Truck Accident …
This is an image that is in bad shape and I did not feel like taking the time to work it up, so I just through a texture screen on it and ran it though several filters to give it this look. The sign...
View ArticleP. K. Younge Elementary School …
This photo is one that I had copied years ago for someone and I ran across it recently. My father and his brother used to walk to school here back in the 1920′s … now let me tell you where they used...
View ArticleDoc and Kitty in Front of The Town House Motor Lodge …
This is “Doc” and “Kitty” from the tv show Gunsmoke. They were in town back in the middle 1950′s for the Fiesta. I have posted some other photos of them in earlier posts, but I never could find this...
View ArticleClubbs Baseball Team 1957 …
I have quite a few of these negatives from Clubbs Junior High School from back in the 1950′s and I will post more in the future as I clean them up. I have a lot of these type of images showing a few...
View ArticleFirst Methdist Musicians …
This is a group of musicians from First Methodist Church in downtown Pensacola Florida on Wright Street from the 1950′s. I believe that the organist’s name is Morrison, but I am not positive about...
View ArticlePHS Twirler …
I have several more of the these twirlers from the Pensacola High School Band of the 1950′s that I put up in the next month or so. I am not sure if she is a band majorette or a baton twirler, but I...
View ArticleRomana Street in the 1950′s …
This panorama was made in the 1950′s, not sure of the exact year. This is looking west on Romana Street toward downtown Pensacola. On the left side of the street you see a Pittsburgh Paint Shop and...
View ArticleGuest Blogger at ” Airports Made Simple ”…
I want to thank Deborah over at the blog Airports Made Simple for allowing me to be a guest blogger. She had seen this blog and was interested in the airport / airplane images from the 1950′s that I...
View ArticleWholesale Furniture Warehouse …
This business was located on the north side of Mobile Highway and you saw it on your right when came over the viaduct that crossed the railroad tracks from Brownsville. In fact, I believe, that this...
View ArticleEast Hill in the Snow …
I decided to post a few more of these snow scenes from back in February 1957 to show how much snow Pensacola received …Now on 1/29/14 we have an ice storm and everything comes to a stand-still. The...
View ArticleThe Maternity Ward at the Old Sacred Heart Hospital …
This photo of my mother and I was made on 14 Aug 53, I was born on 11 Aug 14, so I was 3 days old in this photo. This is the type of photo my father would take of the mother and her new born baby and...
View ArticleCole Wedding …
These images are from a ” Cole ” Wedding that my father photographed back in the 1950′s. I had posted an image of two twin girls standing in a hallway of the San Carlos Hotel in an earlier post. I am...
View ArticlePK Younge Class Photo …
This is my father’s fifth grade class photo at PK Younge School on Palafox Street. This is the class photo that I mentioned in an earlier post that has the author, Shelby Foote, in the group, but I...
View ArticlePensacola Mardi Gras …
Not sure if this Mardi Gras photo is from the 1920′s or 30′s. All of the people on the float are wearing black masks for some reason, making them even more scarey. The man on the podium is giving...
View ArticleTalking On The Phone …
I do not know anything about this photo ( as usual ), but I just thought that it and the one below where cute photographs. You can just barely see the black phone on the table to the girl’s left. I...
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