Beach Street 1904

Daytona Beach 1904

To the left is Burdines Drug Store with a Coca Cola sign on the side of the building. Of course this was before cars were regularly seen on the local streets. It’s also before condos lined the beach and river.

I’m not a romantic about living in an earlier time, but I enjoy seeing the differences in how people lived. For a short time, I owned a vintage clothing store in Kutztown Pennsylvania and really love Victorian clothing and architecture. There are a few lovely Victorian homes in Daytona Beach, but not like other places. There are other beachside communities with many Victorian homes. We visited Cape May, New Jersey years ago and was fascinated by many of the lovely old homes there.

I’ll be searching for more vintage photos of Ormond Beach, Daytona Beach and Port Orange over the coming months. We will also be dispatching our photographer to capture some of the current points of interest. We’ll be posting them here and then displaying many of them in our Ormond Beach office at 159 West Granada Blvd.

We were out doing a photo shoot of a new listing at the Mediterranean condo building in October when this shot was taken. This shot was taken around noon time. Normally, noon is not as good time a time as around sunrise and sunset for landscape photos, but the dramatic sky and the contrasted with the palms and seawall make for a pretty nice picture.

Now this is a digital photo and it has been enhanced a bit in Photoshop, but only a little. The sky over the ocean was very nice that day. The day was warm, in the low 90s.

The area of the beach is not as crowded as it is closer to the pier. Many people enjoy walking and running along this stretch. The Mediterranean building is located south of Bellair Plaza. Check out the map below for the exact location.