1950s Archives - Orlando Memory

Places

The Azalea Park neighborhood in Orlando was created from the remains of a private air field and was considered at the time to be the crowning achievement for developer Wellborn C. Phillips, Sr. Residents of the neighborhood researched and collected his ... Read more

Organizations

Colonial High School

Colonial High School opened In 1958, providing much needed relief for other schools in the area. It began with a dual schedule: High School classes in the morning and Junior High classes in the afternoon. Rufus E. Jennings was the first principal and B ... Read more

Organizations

Good Shepherd Catholic School

Sister Mary Dorothea and the Sisters of St. Joseph began holding classes in the sanctuary of Good Shepherd Catholic Mission Church in 1956. That same year Bishop Thomas J. McDonough dedicated Good Shepherd Catholic School with a student body of 150 stud ... Read more

Organizations

Good Shepherd Catholic Church

Good Shepherd Mission Church was established through the efforts of Monsignor John G. Bishop. Ground breaking took place in 1955 and the first Mass was celebrated on March 18, 1956 by Rev. Roman S. Gromala. The photo above is of the new sanctuary o ... Read more

Topics

The Halcyon Days of Orlando - Dann Pottinger

I'm Dann Pottinger and I'm from Orlando, one of those rare creatures that spent all my life here... My career being in the banking business. I was the founder and president of First State Financial and also president later of Commercial State Bank...I ope ... Read more

Events

College Park Oral History Night with The Pickerills

ABOVE: Bob Pickerill shows photos of the Pickerill Baseball Team at the College Park Oral History Night with The Pickerill Family, April 22, 2013 at Infusion Tea in College Park. Paul Pickerill was out on a boat fishing with Mike Cook one day and though ... Read more

People

Orlando Lutheran Towers: It's a Good Community for People to Live In

Above: Evelyn Powers is a welcoming presence to the downtown community of Orlando Lutheran Towers who stop in to pick up a danish and coffee at the lovely cafe shop. We invite you to listen as she tells her story of life in the City Beautiful! ... Read more

Places

The Nativity Scene at Marks Street Elementary School, 1953

ABOVE IMAGE: Patsy Driggers, Jimmy Cayce, Kathryn Miller, and Richard Czerner dramatize The Nativity at Marks Street Elementary School Christmas Program directed by Mrs. Louise Stanley, December 1953. Mrs. Milligan's brother, Jimmy Cayce, appears second ... Read more

People

General Surgeon Dr. C. David Price Oral History Interview, Part II

There were very few specialists when I came here. There were a few, but there was no strict criteria for exactly who did what. At Winter Park and at the San and even at the Orange, there were a lot of doctors, returned missionaries, and well trained famil ... Read more

Events

A Christmas Message from Our Principal

But through all this excitement boys and girls let us not forget the true meaning of Christmas - the first Christmas when to all the world was given the greatest gift of all times - the babe in the Manger, Our Savior. It was out of love for the Savior th ... Read more

Events

College Park Oral History Night with Joan & Bill Milligan

Above: Joan and Bill Milligan, special guest speakers, at College Park Oral History Night at Infusion Tea, October 29, 2012. The Milligans celebrated 50 years of marriage this month and share their history of life in Orlando in these audio excerpts fro ... Read more

People

General Surgeon Dr. C. David Price Medical Oral History Interview, 2012

When Florida native Dr. C. David Price came to Orlando in 1954, he was the only fully qualified General Surgeon between Orlando and Jacksonville. You had to join the Orange County Medical Society to practice medicine and have hospital privileges. Emergenc ... Read more