Vintage Map, Tourist Brochures for Florida: Silver Springs, Monkey Jungle, Orien for Sale

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Vintage Map, Tourist Brochures for Florida: Silver Springs, Monkey Jungle, Orien For Sale

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Vintage Map, Tourist Brochures for Florida: Silver Springs, Monkey Jungle, Orien:
$14.99

Includes an excellent vintage map of Florida, from Texaco/Rand McNally in 1964, when the Sunshine State had a fraction of its current population (home to about 5.5 million people, as opposed to 23 million today). Features a road map of Florida (and a more detailed map of the Tampa/St. Petersburg Area), as well as the location of Texaco service stations, on one side, along with a road map of the entire US (at a time when the interstate highway system was just being built) and more detailed maps of Florida’s other major urban centers (Pensacola, Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami) on the other side;

and vintage tourist brochures from the Sunshine State’s many bespoke amusement parks in the age when Disney World was still just a dream, including Silver Springs (a tourist center built around one of Florida’s famous limestone springs, with glass-bottom boat rides, a petting zoo, beautiful subtropical garden and alligator show (from Silver Springs Inc., 1965), a vintage brochure for Jacksonville’s Oriental Gardens, a lovely sunken garden built on 20 acres of a private estate on the Saint Johns River (from AAA, circa 1965), and a colorful vintage cardstock flyer for Monkey Jungle, (located about 20 miles south of Miami), billed as “America’s Finest Primate Exhibit” (still in operation today) (from Florida Attractions Association, circa 1970).