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THE ORLANDO ARMY AIR FORCE BASE September 1940 ABOVE: Orlando Morning Sentinel - Air Base Edition, August 31, 1940. VIEW the 24-page Air Base Edition Servicemen with photographs in the Air Base Edition: Captain Charles A. Bassett, Captain Dudley D. Ha ... Read more

This collection of black and white photographs is from the personal collection of Tim Orwick, Colonial High School graduate and yearbook photographer extraordinaire. Orlando Memory is grateful to Tim for sending us these photos to share. Many of Tim Or ... Read more

Thomas Jenkins Dolive ("doe-leave") was born in Orlando February 27, 1890 and interviewed in December of 1971 by Hatabel Hyer. He was well known to many in Orlando as were his parents and siblings.  According to Eve Bacon's Orlando: A Centennial History ... Read more

When the San Juan Hotel at the northwest corner of Orange Avenue and Central Boulevard was slated for demolition, many citizens felt that the past was slipping away by wrecking ball and bulldozer and soon would be forgotten. The displays created by Orland ... Read more