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Pensacola Lighthouse, Pensacola, FL, 1966

Subject
Lighthouses
Card type
Chrome
Date
c. 1966 (Chrome)
Front of Pensacola Lighthouse, Pensacola, FL, 1966, Donald E. Neely, MI, USA, c. 1966 chrome postcard
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Back of Pensacola Lighthouse, Pensacola, FL, 1966, Donald E. Neely, MI, USA, c. 1966 chrome postcard
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About this postcard

The Pensacola Lighthouse stands behind its white two-story keeper's quarters, a tall tower painted black above and white below. A white picket fence and trees frame the grounds, and a family walks in the foreground. The printed caption ties the site to Pensacola's colonial past, noting the Spanish explorer Miruela (likely Miruelo) entering the bay in 1516 and the city's passage under five flags. By the 1960s the lighthouse was a long-established guide for ships entering Pensacola Bay.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

9/3- Hi Kids!- Well Here we are the country is beautiful we are near the Gulf Coast & you know how I like water the storm in Mississippi sure did an awful lot of damage. It makes you sick - Mom & Dio

PublisherPronto Photo
LIGHTHOUSE, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA Miruela sailed into what is Pensacola Bay in 1516, just twenty-four years after Columbus discovered America, and one hundred and four years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Under five flags has this little city lived and seventeen times has her Govern- ment changed. Today Pensacola stands a part of all that has gone before.
PostmarkedPensacola, FL
Stamp
Addressed to
Donald E. Neely

25053 Stanford Dearborn Heights, MI

Postcard record

PostmarkedPensacola, FL
PublisherPronto Photo
Series84028
ConditionVery good
Place addressedDonald E. Neely, 25053 Stanford, Dearborn Heights, MI
Place mentionedPensacola, FL
PublisherPronto Photo, Pensacola, FL
Stamp5c George Washington, blue
NotesFull-bleed color image with printed caption "LIGHTHOUSE, PENSACOLA, FLORIDA"; likely chrome-era postcard. Postmark: PENSACOLA FLA. 1966; slogan GIVE THE UNITED WAY. Divided-back chrome/glossy era card with printed caption and publisher imprint; 5c stamp; light edge wear, no major damage.

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Pensacola Lighthouse, Pensacola, FL, 1966, postcard, c. 1966. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/pensacola-lighthouse-pensacola-fl-1966. Accessed November 2, 2026.