Brian's Photography - Pensacola, FL

Photography : Florida : Pensacola : Downtown

Downtown Pensacola is a historic area of the United States. Pensacola is called the "City of Five Flags" because it has been under the control of five countries in its history - Spain, France, Britain, the United States, and the Confederate States. Some of the buildings downtown are many hundreds of years old.

April, 1997

A walk down Palafox Street, the main venue in Pensacola.

This painted billboard shows how advertising was done in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

A look down on the plaza on Palafox Street. Many asian tourists enjoy visiting this small park in the centre of town.

This church has been around for many years, and is a landmark in Pensacola.

Tokyo Chaya was my favourite Japanese restaurant. They are owned by new people now, and I haven't been back to see whether or not the food is excellent.

You can see our five flags in this photograph, flying in front of our historic central post office.

June, 1998

This is in front of our new Federal courthouse, located on Palafox street.

The bayfront still is a place of commerce in Pensacola, but many fine restauraunts can also be found down there.

Here is a closer look at our historic central post office.

The plants in front of this building add a nice colour to our downtown area.

Here's a panoramic look down our main avenue, Palafox street.

This is Pensacola Grand Hotel, a very fine hotel to stay in!

This is our Bayfront Auditorium, built in the late 1950's.

A view from above!

This is a great park to relax in when one is downtown.

This is our historic city courthouse.

Here is a new marina that is being built - It will soon be a great place to shop and work, also! (By some twist of God's grace, I ended up working for the company which built this marina in 2000.)