2013 Floridiana Festival & Highwaymen Artist Show - Vintage Kitsch, Souvenirs, Meet the Highwaymen!

Jan. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- Floridiana Festival & Highwaymen Artists Show - Mermaids & More!

Get your fix for Florida’s kitschy kitschy koolness at the February 24, 2013 Floridiana Festival & Highwaymen Artist Show.  This popular annual antiques and collectibles event focuses exclusively on vintage Florida souvenirs and memorabilia - all those tacky old tourist treasures that you may remember from that long-ago road trip in the back of your parents station wagon

Attendees will find everything for sale from fun Florida travel ephemera and tacky tourist treasures like alligator handbags and flamingo figurines, to sought-after collectibles such as hand-painted jewelry with miniature Florida scenes, vintage Florida photographic art, and citrus and cigar box labels.  Discover small furnishings and lighting made of Cypress knee woods, vintage wall mirrors with flamingo images, ceramic statues of tropical birds, and old Florida art. There will even be an abundance of vintage Aloha shirts for our tropical state!

Several Florida authors will be participating. Larry Roberts, author of "Florida's Golden Age of Souvenirs: 1890 to 1930" and considered by many to be the "guru" of collecting old Florida memorabilia will be exhibiting and selling, as well as Ken Breslauer, author of "Roadside Paradise -- the Golden Age of Florida's Tourist Attractions 1929-71" and Wayne Ayers, author of numerous Florida history books, including “Tampa Bay's Gulf Beaches: Fabulous 1950's and 1960's” and “St. Petersburg: The Sunshine City.”

The Florida Highwaymen are an important part of Florida’s cultural legacy, and the February 24th show is a wonderful opportunity to meet and mingle with these artists, who will be selling their beautiful Florida sea and landscape paintings.  James Gibson, Issac Knight, R.L. Lewis, and Roy McLendon Sr. are some of the Highwaymen artists who will be participating.  Complimentary valuations of vintage Florida paintings - including that of the Highwaymen - will be available at the show by a well-known appraiser and expert in the field. If you’re not sure what your old Florida art is worth, or who the artist may be, bring it with you to the show!    

Celebrate Florida’s cultural and historical legacy at the Florida Memorabilia & Highwaymen Show, Sunday, February 24, 2013, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the historic Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Avenue North in downtown St. Petersburg.  Show admission is $6.00; children under three years are $3.00. Vintage art valuations are included in the price of show admission.  For further information, visit http://www.hulahula.biz or call Hula Hula at (727) 421-0441.

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Hula Hula Productions has been producing antiques and collectible shows in the Tampa Bay area since 2002, including the Retro-Rama Antiques & Collectibles Show, the Baby Boomer Antiques & Collectibles Show, and the Antiques in the Park series.