A broad, pale walkway runs between rows of coconut palms whose long fronds arch overhead and meet above the path, with a white slat bench set on the grass at right and water glimpsed through the trunks at left. The card names the scene as Coconut Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, one of the palm-lined drives and walks laid out in the resort town developed by Henry M. Flagler's hotels and the Florida East Coast Railway in the 1890s. Such avenues of transplanted coconut palms became a signature sight of the young winter resort.
Postcard Details
Message · English, in pen
Dear Charlotte, -
Why don't you
write?
Helen Titcomb
PostmarkedSaint Petersburg, FL, January 29, 1908, 15:30
Thin white border; small tear at upper left corner; grainy halftone/litho color printing.
Postmark: SAINT PETERSBURG FLA JAN 29 3:30 PM (second, receiving-style mark: AMESBURY MASS. FEB 1 8-2NA 1908). Divided back with green "Post Card" heading; imprint "Published in Saxony by G. W. Morris, Portland, Maine."; light toning and minor corner wear.
Cite this card
Coconut Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida, 1908, postcard, c. 1908. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/coconut-avenue-palm-beach-florida-1908. Accessed November 2, 2026.
