"Our atmosphere and decor takes you back to another time and place, the walls are decorated with more than 20,000 early americana antiques and unusual items. We display on our walls the things that people used to use in their daily lives. It is really a museum although the outside is very deceiving, but when people walk inside they get the surprise of their life. They marvel at how many things we have and how it is displayed. We have been filmed by all the big TV stations, the major programs like the Discovery Channel and American Trails and also we have been filmed by six foreign television stations and when these programs were aired in the foreign countries we have been visited by many tourists from all over the world. It seems we take them back in time and picture for them the true American way."





A few of the antiques, oddities, historical pieces and junk that graced the walls, floors, ceilings, nooks and crannies of Allen's Historical Cafe.


Three Wheeler


Music Room Door

Washing Machine

Lanterns


Farm Equipment


Arrowheads

The Bear


Ceramics


Door Knobs

Wooden Indian


Gator Skull


Glassware


Bawdy Glassware

Kiddie Trike

Park Memorial


Room Wall


Stuff


Toy Locomotive

Tricycle


Wall of Fame


 

 

 

The Historical Cafe
Virtual Tour
Cafe Photo Gallery
The Patrons
The Food
Pickers Gallery
Old-Timer's Days
Antiques Gallery
Bluegrass Festivals
Carl Allen's Bio
CA Photo Gallery
The Book

Lakeland Ledger
(Lakeland, FL) 1970
"A Touch of Local Color"
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Lakeland Ledger
(Lakeland, FL) 1971
"One Oyster, One Necklace"
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News-Chief
(Winter Haven, FL) 1975
"Auburndale Historian Born Too Late"
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WH News Chief
(Winter Haven, FL) 1976
"Auburndale Restaurant Provides History Lesson"
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Florida Fishing Magazine
1977
Restaurant Review
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Heartland Tribune
(Tampa, FL) 1977
"Rattlesnake For Dinner?"
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San Francisco Examiner
(San Francisco, CA) 1980
"He's a Cracker and Proud of it"
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Detroit Free Press
(Detroit, MI) 1987
"Rattler Served Here"
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Tampa Tribune
(Tampa, FL) 1988
"Florida Flavor Served Here"
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Florida Today
(syndicated) 1988
"Heapin' Helpin' of History"
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Atlanta Journal and Constitution
(Atlanta, GA) 1990
"John Egerton Article & Review"
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St. Petersburg Times
(St. Petersburg, FL) 1990
A Heapin' Helpin' of Cracker History"
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Sunday News
(Lancaster, PN) 1993
"Try Armadillo at Allen's Historical Cafe"
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The News-Herald
(Willoughby, OH) 1996
"Review of Florida Restaurants"
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News Chief
(Winter Haven, FL) 1996
"Carl Allen Takes Final Curtain Call"