Hello! Today's travel post is the first post of our last day in Pensacola Beach, Florida. It was a cool, over cast day in Florida, so we went to visit historic downtown Pensacola Florida in the morning. We drove around the older neighborhoods, stopping the car to take pictures when we saw some interesting older homes.
Here is one of the lovely older homes in the historic village that we really liked.
We kept seeing all these beautiful orange trees in front of every house. I don't know how good the oranges taste, but they sure are pretty as ornamental trees!
This is a carved tree sculpture which is holding up a heavy branch of the same tree.
I've always had a fondness for yellow houses. Here is another historic home in the village.
After we toured the historic neighborhoods of Pensacola, we then drove to the business district. Pensacola is only about four hours from New Orleans, so we weren't surprised to see the influence of the French Quarter architecture in Pensacola.
I loved the old lighting fixtures:
Another beautiful lighting fixture. There was so much gorgeous wood in this place.
We found this very, very old bar. It reminded me of a saloon you see in old western movies.
The saloon was decorated with a aviation theme and had lots of pictures of hot air balloons and airplanes on the walls, and lots of replicas like this hot air balloon hanging from the ceiling.
These beautiful wooden doors are the entrance to the saloon.
I loved all the iron work in the business district, especially if it was a teal color like this one.
This is a portion of the ladies restroom. It's a long, narrow area just for touching up your make up or hair. The wall paper was very interesting.
There is a beautiful brick enclosed alley that connects all the bars and restaurants together.
Outside the restaurant is a lovely garden courtyard.
Parked outside the restaurant was this vintage fire truck that my husband matched perfectly with his Wisconsin Badgers sweatshirt.
I believe this was the museum, that we didn't visit because of lack of time. I always marvel at the palm trees….we just don't see those type of trees in Wisconsin! They are such a treat to my eyes!
This is another business district. There wasn't much shopping in the area, it seemed mostly to be filled with bars and restaurants. It probably has quite the night life! The New Year's Eve celebration is held in this area, and I read that it draws 55,000 people. We did not attend that because it was so cold New Year's Eve.
A public building:
Most of the business buildings had the New Orleans style balconies like the ones pictured below:
And finally, you all know how much I love old churches. Here is Pensacola's historic church Old Christ Church established in 1832. Gorgeous!
Have a great day! Amy
I had NO idea that Pensacola had so many neat historic places! Loved your tour. That first house reminds me of the one I grew up in.
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