Orlando, Florida

Top View:  Centennial Fountain, Lake Eola

Bottom View:  Eola Park, with a portion of Lake Eola

"Orlando Presents" - a series of musical entertainments on Sunday's at the Lake Eola Bandshell in downtown Orlando.  The concerts are varied and appeal to all age groups.

(In the foreground is what was once the Harley Hotel (owned by Harry and Leona Helmsley) and more recently a Sheraton Four Points.)

Rose Garden and Lake Eola

Orlando, Florida

Skyline of Orlando, Florida

As seen from roof of Cherry Plaza Hotel

Orlando, Florida

The new and modern City Hall, located on North Orange Avenue.

(This building was demolished in the opening scene of Lethal Weapon III)

Orlando, Florida

"The Action Center"

Centennial Fountain at night in Lake Eola

Home of the Martin Co.'s Orlando Division.  This modernistic plant manufactures missiles for the Army, Navy and Air Force.

(I love the rocket sculpture on the side of the building)

Rochester, New York

La Society

40/8

Voiture No. 111

Rochester, N.Y.

A replica of the famous French Wartime Troop Train

James A Chafel's Villa

3700 East Ave. - Rochester, N.Y.

Hillside 3795

Food For Enjoyment

If You have You know

If You haven't You should

Casa Lorenzo

33 Chestnut St.  Rochester, N.Y.

This nationally known Restaurant has one of the finest and newest fireproof Restaurant Buildings in the Country.  A Visit will repay you threefold.

Banquet Rooms Available.

Rochester, New York

George Eastman House

East Avenue, Rochester, N.Y.

Xerox Building, located on Clinton Avenue, South, Rochester, N.Y.

Eastman Kodak Co., office building located on State St. in downtown Rochester, N.Y.

Midtown Plaza Mall

Downtown, Rochester, N.Y.

Miami, Florida

Biscayne Blvd. at Night, Miami, Fla.

Beautiful Bayfront Park from the Rock Garden, Miami, Fla.

Biscayne Blvd. Looking North from Flagler Street, Miami, Florida

Miami Beach, Florida

Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida

Collins Ave. looking South from 17th St., Miami Beach, Florida

Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Fla.

Picture shows Lummus Park, Miami Beach public beach and park, also Tides and Victor Hotels.

Weeki Wachee, Florida

MERMAIDS!

Two of the Weeki Wachee Mermaids display the trademark and symbol of Weeki Wachee, the ADAGIO, in the Underwater Grand Canyon at Florida's Weeki Wachee located just north of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater.

Weeki Wachee Mermaid flies on her trapeze in the new mermaid show "Underwater Circus".  Weeki Wachee is on U.S. 19 and Florida 50 about 50 miles north of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater triangle.

The Famous Underwater Adagio as seen at Weeki Wachee, Florida, Spring of Live Mermaids.

A pretty and talented Weeki Wachee mermaid checks her hairdo before descending 117 feet into Florida's Underwater Grand Canyon, located North of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater at intersection of U.S. 19 and Fla. 50.

Weeki Wachee, Florida:  Mermaid disquised as a "Nutty Professor" finds unusual clam shell in one of the scenes in the underwater live mermaid show, presented daily at the popular Florida West Coast tourist attraction.

Weeki Wachee Mermaids present an all new underwater show with all new acts and costumes and featuring the Weeki Wachee friendly dolphin.  Weeki Wachee is located on U.S. 19 and Florida 50 on Florida's West Coast.

Weeki Wachee, Florida

I thought when I posted a Weeki Wachee postcard awhile back that it was the only one in my posession.  Somehow it must have gotten separated from the herd since today I found ten more.  Today I've got some above water cards.  Tomorrow will be all mermaids under the water.

The bouganvillea are in bloom twelve months of the year in the flowerful patio at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida, located on Route 19 north of Clearwater, St. Petersburg and Tampa.

Lovely mermaids pose on the beach at Weeki Wachee, the Spring of Live Mermaids located on U.S. 19 and Fla. 50, North of St. Petersburg, Tampa and Clearwater.

Weeki Wachee, Florida, home of the world's largest underwater aqua-theatre, where lovely and lively mermaids present an underwater musical revue against the background of Florida's underwater grand canyon.  Weeki Wachee is located on Florida's West Coast north of St. Petersburg, Tampa and Clearwater.

Weeki Wachee's Covered Wagon Train takes Florida visitors on a delightful trip through "the real Florida".  Weeki Wachee, Spring of Live Mermaids, is located at the intersection of U.S. 19 and Florida 50 on Florida's West Coast.

The Great Masterpiece - Masterpiece Gardens

The Great Masterpiece
Lake Wales, Florida

In a beautiful garden on the shore of Lake Pierce near the Singing Tower is lovated one of the great art treasures of modern times...a magnificently executed 300,000 piece mosaic in which is recaptured for all time the detail and meaning of Leonardo da Vinci's immortal "Lord's Last Supper".

Viewing the huge mosaic in its unusual outdoor setting, the visitor is easily transported to Milan where Leonardo's original painting, ravaged by time and war, is gradually fading from the wall of an ancient monastery.

Europe's most highly skilled mosaic artisians completed the Great Masterpiece in Germany in 1930.  Flown out of Berlin by U.S. Airlift it was brought to its permanent home here in the Gardens of Peace.

Bok Tower

The Singing Tower is located on the highest spot in Florida and is surrounded by beautifully landscaped grounds.  The Sanctuary.  The Tower is built of Florida coquina stone and Georgia pink marble, weight 5,500 tons, and took over two years to complete.  It contains one of the largest and the finest Carillons in the world, consisting of 71 bells the smallest weighing 17 pounds, while the largest weighs 12 tons.  This beautiful Sanctuary and wonderful Singing Tower were given to the people by Mr. Edward W. Bok as a symbol of beauty, and as an expression of his thanks to the American Flag.  The place has been rightfully called "The Most Beautiful Spot in America."

Edward Bok conceived and built the Singing Tower, inspired by his grandmother's words:  "Make you the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have lived in it."  The bas-relief shows primitive chimes - bells rung by hand with mallets.  This room is of coquina rock and marble, with teak wood stairway treads and hand wrought iron railings and lanterns.

The Singing Tower is located on the highest spot in Florida and is surrounded by beautifully landscaped grounds. The Sanctuary. The Tower is built of Florida coquina stone and Georgia pink marble, weight 5,500 tons, and took over two years to complete. It contains one of the largest and the finest Carillons in the world, consisting of 71 bells the smallest weighing 17 pounds, while the largest weighs 12 tons. This beautiful Sanctuary and wonderful Singing Tower were given to the people by Mr. Edward W. Bok as a symbol of beauty, and as an expression of his thanks to the American Flag. The place has been rightfully called "The Most Beautiful Spot in America."

Palm Beach, Florida

Beautifully situated among tropical foliage and built along the Spanish Renaissance style of architecture.  It houses a 6-foot statue of The Sacred Heart of Jesus and a relief of The Last Supper, both carved from solid Carrara marble.

From The Palm Beaches
"Grand Vacationing - Grand Living"
(The Afromobile!  Boy would that be polically incorrect today.)

Puerto Rico

Greetings From Puerto Rico
Fortress "El Morro" in old San Juan.

Greetings From Puerto Rico
The unusual and magnificent Beach Pool at the El Conquistador Hotel, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

El San Juan Hotel
Isle Verde
San Juan, Puerto Rico

"El Callejon del Hospital," a step street in the City of Old San Juan, P.R.

El Yungue.  One of the many water falls in the lower sections of the rain forest, Puerto Rico.

Saranac Lake, New York

Jesse James Museum, Stanton, Missouri

Jesse James Wax Museum
U.S. 66 - I. 44
Stanton, Missouri
Rudy Turilli who has researched the life of Jesse James for the past 20 years is thoroughly convinced that the figure seated next to him shows Jesse James as he looked when he was 102 years of age.  Mr. Turilli spends most of his time talking to people inside the museum.












Left to Right - Zerelda James Samuels, Mother of the James boys; Cole Younger, Frank James, QUANTRILL and Jesse James.
At Jesse James Museum, Stanton, Missouri
Where you will See AND Hear the True Story

Visit the museums website here: http://www.jessejameswaxmuseum.com/

Bok Tower, Lake Wales, Florida

Marble steps lead to the huge door of hand hammered brass.   This door is composed of twenty-six separate pictures, depicting in brass repousse the Genesis story of the Creation, up to the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.

Anton Brees and the Carillon

This is the room in which Anton Brees, the world's greatest carillonneur, plays the carillon on the clavier, or keyboard, and makes the music which gives the Singing Tower its name.  The bells themselves do not seing but are rigid, and are struck by clappers worked by levers and operated my the manuals and pedals of the clavier in this room.

No brush can paint nor pencil trace,

The charm and beauty of this place;

Where stands a wondrous monument,

The Singing Tower magnificent.

The Singing Tower, Lake Wales, Florida

The Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower were presented to the public by Edward W. Bok.  Everything that genius and art could devise have been done to make this garden spot beautiful and inspiring.  On Iron Mountain, the highest point of land in Florida, the Tower of Georgia marble and Coquina rock, rises 205 feet, to have its beauty duplicated by the reflection in the little lake at its base.  Music from the Carillon, one of the finest in the world, enhances the charm that makes this Sanctuary so memorable.