The Sunburn State

The Sunburn State is a collection of photographs, links, music, news articles, vintage iconography and whatever else weird and wonderful, kitschy and kooky relating to the state of Florida. This Tumblr blog seeks to celebrate as well as snicker at the Sunshine State and its residents. The title image was taken from here. All items on this page belong to their respective owners, with the exception of original material. If you see your material featured on the Sunburn State and don't wish for it to be, just send an e-mail with the URL of the post and it'll be taken down. Beware of the gators.

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theardentexile:

Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

Brian Phillips, Supercontinent

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bad-postcards:

EXPLORE FLORIDA

Spain ceded Florida to the United States 190 years ago today. Look what we did with it.

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rhamphotheca:

Florida Apple Snail, Pomacea paludosa, A monograph of the freshwater univalve Mollusca of the United States: including notices of species in other parts of North America. No. 8 Ampullaria (pl. 1), 1845, Samuel Stehman Haldeman.

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jsnspringer:

“Florida Homeowner Forecloses on Bank of America Branch”

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MAY 25--A Florida dentist is facing assault and battery charges after he allegedly tussled yesterday with an 85-year-old patient over her dentures, police report.

According to cops, Michael Hammonds, 57, was attempting to adjust Virginia Graham’s “lower partial dentures” when the senior citizen “began screaming” due to pain caused by the ill-fitting false teeth.

“Graham removed the partials from her mouth and threw them at Hammonds, which he caught,” according to a Volusia County Sheriff’s Office report.

When Hammonds refused Graham’s demand for a $900 refund, she tried to snatch the dentures from the dentist’s hand, prompting a “brief tug-of-war.” At that point, “Graham then bent down and bit Hammonds hand forcing him to let go of the partial.”

Graham then got out of the operating chair and sought to leave Hammonds’s Deltona office. But the dentist “got in her face and began screaming at her, causing her to fear that he would potentially cause her harm,” investigators reported. Graham told deputies that Hammonds physically kept her from leaving his office. She “made one final attempt to leave by trying to climb over the receptionist desk and out the receptionists window,” but abandoned that bid in order to avoid injury.

Continue reading on The Smoking Gun.

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Vintage 1970s t-shirt for a toddler. Sold by PeppermintThrift.

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bad-postcards:

BAMBI MOTEL

Deer families get a 50% discount!

Orphaned fawns stay for free!

Hunters not welcome!

BAMBI MOTEL U.S. 19, 17A and 98 Perry, Florida

31 100% Air conditioned units, ceramic tiled baths, tub and shower combinations, electrically heated. Restaurant across the street. T.V. in the rooms, swimming pool, wading pool and playground. Family accommodations.

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kingrickofflorida:

In the last few months, conservatives in several stateshave moved to limit unemployment benefits, even with the national unemployment rate at 9 percent and more than 40 percent of the unemployed having been out of work for six months or more. Conservative lawmakers in Utah falsely claimed that cutting jobless benefits would be “motivation for people to get back to work,” while Michigan gutted its unemployment insurance systemdespite having one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation.

Florida Republicans this weekend also succeeded in reducing their state’s unemployment benefits, sending a bill to Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) for his signature:

A bill that would establish some of the deepest and most far-reaching cuts in unemployment benefits in the nation is heading for the desk of Gov. Rick Scott…The legislation would cut maximum state benefits to 23 weeks from 26 when the jobless rate is 10.5 percent or higher. If lower, the maximum would decline on a sliding scale until bottoming at 12 weeks if the jobless rate was 5 percent or less.

As the National Employment Law Project pointed out, with this bill, Florida will “go further than any other state in dismantling its unemployment insurance system.” The Republican sponsor of the bill, state Sen. Nancy Detert (R), relied on the same false assumption as the lawmakers in Utah, saying that cutting benefits “encourages people to get back into the job market.” Research by the San Francisco Federal Reserve has found that workers who qualify for unemployment benefits stay unemployed just 1.6 weeks longer than those who do not qualify for such benefits.

Even before this legislation, Florida’s benefits were amongst the stingiest in the nation. Once it becomes law, Floridians will not receive the national standard of 26 weeks of unemployment benefits unless the state’s unemployment rate, currently at 11.1 percent,tops 12 percent. As the Miami Herald pointed out, the bill also makes it “easier for companies to keep former workers from collecting benefits.”

Adding insult to injury, the money saved from cutting unemployment benefits will be used to reduce business taxes in a state where the corporate tax rate is already exceedingly low. Scott had been looking to cut corporate taxes even further, but was rebuffed by the legislature.

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By Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel columnist In a moment, I’m going to tell you about plans to gut one of Florida’s key environmental programs — one meant to safeguard everything from manatees to the seafood you eat.

The program is cheap. Its effectiveness has been touted by politicians on...

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jacquelineiannacone:

Arnold Newman, Fire Escape West Palm Beach Fl, 1941

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timdaleyphotography:

Orange World / Kissimmee, Florida

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