Month: September 2008
Events
Eddie Graham Sports Stadium - Three Dog Night
ABOVE: On April 23, 1971, Chuck Negron.
The Orlando Sports Stadium / Eddie Graham Sports Stadium
The second concert I attended at the Orlando Sports Stadium / Eddie Graham Stadium was on 23 April 1971 with my friend Judy Jackson and my...
Places
Chastain's Restaurant
Chastain's Restaurant closed its doors after 40 years in business on North Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando, on Tuesday, September 3, 1996, to the dismay of its many loyal and long-time customers.
An article in the Orlando Sentinel on September 7,...
Events
Walt Disney World - 25th Anniversary
ABOVE: This is my husband and children at Epcot. You can see the Spaceship Earth on the left and the Monorail track on the right. Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom opened to the public for the first time in October 1971....
Organizations
Church of the Annunciation
ABOVE: During the last Masses celebrated in the original church building in 2002, parishioners were allowed to come up on the altar to say goodbye. The church was demolished once services began in the new building. The church was still...
People
Gerald Ford at Florida Technological University
Sometime between 1974 and 1975, President Gerald R. Ford visited the campus of Florida Technological University (FTU) now University of Central Florida (UCF) to speak to the Society of Professional Journalists. My husband was attending school there and had the...
Events
President Nixon at FTU
ABOVE: President Nixon addressing graduates on 8 June 1973 at Florida Technological University (FTU) now University of Central Florida (UCF).
On June 8, 1973, then President Richard M. Nixon addressed graduates and guests numbering almost 10,000 i...
Events
Florida Technological University
ABOVE: This print version of a watercolor original by artist Richard Lewis is Florida Technological University as it appeared around 1972. There were just a couple of buildings around the reflection pond - affectionately referred to by students who grew...
Events
EPCOT - America Gardens Theatre - Candlelight Processional
ABOVE: Marlee Matlin (at podium to the left in the photo) is one of my favorite performers at Candlelight. Without speaking the words herself, with the aid of her interpreter, she presents a truly dramatic and emotional performance of the...
Organizations
WMFE-TV Channel 24 - Orlando's PBS Station
Channel 24 WMFE TV, Orlando's PBS affiliate, had humble beginnings with the studio and offices located in the Mid Florida Tech building located on Oakridge Road in South Orlando. This was the location when I joined the staff in October...
Places
EPCOT - America Gardens Theatre
ABOVE: Bob McGrath of Sesame Street performed at EPCOT around 1989. My kids were three and five at the time and big Sesame Street fans. Bob came out into the audience and stood right next to where we were sitting.
Across...
Places
Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village
ABOVE: Finale at "The Glory and Pageantry of Christmas" which was presented at the Walt Disney World Shopping Village for many years.
Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village
If you lived in the Orlando area or just visited from the 1970s to the...
Places
Infinite Mushroom - Colonial Plaza
The Infinite Mushroom at Colonial Plaza
During the 1960's and 1970's the Infinite Mushroom was where you went for concert tickets, black light posters and apparently unbeknownst to me (I was rather naive at the time) various paraphernalia used by "Hippies!"...
