The Sunshine State's largest show and sale of vintage Florida souvenirs and memorabilia, plus an exhibit and sale by the Florida Highwaymen, returns for it's 9th edition to the historic Gulfport Casino Ballroom on Saturday, January 30, 2010. 

A celebration of Florida's cultural and historical legacies, the Floridiana Festival & Highwaymen Artist Show features an abundance of old roadside attraction kitsch, as well as vintage Florida art and old tropical decor.    Featuring Florida kitsch spanning the range from alligator ashtrays, flamingo figurines, and citrus-shaped radios, to postcards and other fun ephemera from the Sunshine State's old parks and hotels, the Floridiana Festival & Highwaymen Artist Show brings together premier exhibitors and collectors of vintage Floridiana. Serious collectors will enjoy the selection of citrus and cigar box labels, carved alligator canes, and souvenir sterling silver spoons and hotel china from Florida's "golden age of souvenirs," while more casual collectors of kitsch can find postcards of bathing beauties, alligator purses and other Florida fashion, including vintage Aloha shirts.   

Always a special feature at this show is the opportunity to meet and mingle with the Florida Highwaymen artists, who will be selling their beautiful Florida sea and landscape paintings. James Gibson, Issac Knight, Robert Lewis, Willie Reagan, Roy McLendon Sr. and Al Black  are just some of the Highwaymen artists who regularly participate in this show.   Other exhibitors will have vintage Florida Highwaymen art for sale.   Robert LeBlanc of www.highwaymen-buy-sell-trade.com will be offering free valuations of old Florida art, so bring your vintage Florida painting to the show for  an accurate valuation of it's age and value.  

Meet Florida authors, including Lu Vickers, author of "Weeki Wachee: City of Mermaids," along with some of the former mermaids;  Larry Roberts, author of “Florida‘s Golden Age of Souvenirs: 1890-1930“;  and Wayne Ayers, author of "Tampa Bay's Gulf Beaches," "Florida's Grand Hotels from the Gilded Age,"  and other books about old Florida.  

Cash bar & food concession; free parking.  Admission: $6.00 adults/ Children under two years old are $3.00   Registration/information: Call 727-421-0441 or visit www.hulahula.biz