This red-border Kodachrome slide (undated, but probably from the late 1950s) shows an underwater performer at Weeki Wachee Springs. She's holding food to attract fish in one hand, while she hangs on to the air hose that she uses for breathing in the other hand.
As Wikipedia explains, "Weeki Wachee Springs is a natural tourist attraction located in Weeki Wachee, Florida, where underwater performances by 'mermaids,' women wearing fish tails as well as other fancy outfits, can be viewed in an aquarium-like setting in the spring of the Weeki Wachee River."
Originally posted on Ipernity: Feeding the Fish at Weeki Wachee Springs, 1950s.
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"My Glass Bottom Boat Ride at Silver Springs. Walter Ray."
A cleverly constructed souvenir folder and photo, positioned together so that it seems like we're peering into the front of the boat to see the passengers inside.
Silver Springs is a long-standing Florida tourist attraction (and more recently a state park) known for its artesian springs and glass-bottom boat rides. Walter Ray, for whom the boat is named, was one of the co-owners of Silver Springs.
For a similar image, see PopCulture's glass-bottom boat photo on Ipernity.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Glass Bottom Boat Ride at Silver Springs, Florida.
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Caption: "Ollie Trout's Tourist Park, 107th St. and Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Fla." One of the trailers on the right-hand side is labeled "Murphy."
Palm trees dominate the landscape at Ollie Trout's Tourist Park (or Travel Park), Miami, Florida, circa 1937, in this view from a real photo postcard. Visible among the trees are Adirondack chairs, tables with umbrellas, a fountain, automobiles, and travel trailers.
The park was an expensive place to stay in the 1930s and 1940s. As author Phil Noyes explains in his book Trailerama (2012), p. 118, "In post-war America, five dollars a day was a pretty penny, but that's what it would have cost to park your bouncing bungalow at Ollie Trout's Travel Park. Ollie guaranteed palm trees on every site, and there was a bevy of white-jacketed servants delivering cold drinks and warm food to your trailer door."
For a similar scene with travel trailers, see Nicolet Bay Campground, Peninsula State Park, Wisconsin.
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Handwritten on the back of the photo: "1345 14th Street No., St. Petersburg, Florida, Wed. morning, Aug. 19th, 1936. All ready to pull out for home."
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"For[idian] Ho[tel]. Floridian fishing dock, Miami Beach. Caught on yacht Skip Jack, Capt. E. P. Le May."
A tattered, torn, creased, and taped photo of two fishermen posing with a sailfish on the dock of the Floridian Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.
A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of tattered & torn (or otherwise damaged).
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