Month: October 2016
People
Maury L. Carter
Above: Maury L. Carter and his son, Daryl Carter, featured in Florida Trend, July 1991.
Maury Carter, born in Ferrum, Virginia. My dad was a farmer and a carpenter. We had a small farm, 100 acre farm in Virginia not far from Roanoke....
Topics
Orlando - The Charm of the South
"Orlando - The Charm of the South" appears to be a promotional brochure created to encourage real estate purchase and home building in Orlando for permanent and winter residents.
It includes a map of the county and city published by the South Florida Sen...
People
Oral History Interview with Thomas Brogden Tart
The image featured above is of Florida leaders Tom Tart and Ron Blocker celebrating Library Snapshot Day 2014 at the Orlando Public Library.
Thomas Tart, a fifth generation Floridian, received the University of Florida's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a...
People
Oral History Interview with Former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court Charles T. Wells
Featured image above: Orlando Attorney Charles T. Wells
I'm Charles Talley Wells and I go by Charley with an "ey" and I was born on March the 4th, 1939 in what was then known as the Orange Memorial Hospital in Orlando....
Places
Orlando Youth Center
Dedicated on July 13, 1958, the Orlando Youth Center used to be the scene of teen activity for the Orlando crowd in the days before Disney.
Soon to be the new home of the Orlando Ballet, the Loch Haven Community Center,...
Organizations
Hot Diggity Drive-In & Restaurant
The Hot Diggity Drive-In Restaurant was a short lived food establishment overlooking Lake Barton. It first appears in the November 1956 telephone directory, but there was not a listing in the Yellow Pages. The address at that time was 5053...
Topics
Oral History Interview with Paul Halyard
I'm Paul Halyard and I was born in St. Petersburg, FL in 1935 and I moved to Orlando February 1, 1964. After completing the University of Florida I was living in Gainesville and working at Sperry Electronic Tube Department when...
