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Thomasville, GA – September 3, 2016
Well, we have evacuated Tallahassee for a few days due to the fact that it received a direct hit by Hurricane Hermine Thursday night and the local utilities are exhibiting exceptional incompetence in getting power back in place for over 80K houses. So we drove up 319 40 miles to Thomasville and wondered around the…

Daytona Beach – just after Hurricane Matthew – October 13 2016
Daytona Beach just after Hurricane Matthew, October 13, 2016. This first group of pictures is on A1A and the Hilton Hotel. The hotel I was originally booked in for the night, The Plaza, didn’t are too well as you can see; in fact it looked a bit like The Tower of Terror in one picture. The…

Old Coke Bottling Plant – Tallahassee, FL
A few pictures of the old Coca-cola Bottling Plant in the so-called “All Saints District” of Tallahassee. This dates back to when this part of town was the “industrial” hub of the area, mainly because its adjacent to the main rail artery of the region. Most of the building in the area have either…

The Collegiate Village Inn – Tallahassee, FL
Built in 1971, this was a 160 unit motel with what was billed as a large lobby area, restaurant and conference rooms. It was two stories with concrete block construction and a brick veneer. The property was 3.4 acres and zoned CP “Commercial” with 400 feet frontage and a full median cut. The 2007 property…

The Last Splash – or – Not So Wet, Not So Wild
I’d heard a while back that Wet ‘n Wild, the first major water-theme park in Central Florida (and at the time of its opening in 1977 the largest in the world), was closing this year, and honestly thought it had already done so. Last week when we were down there (more on that in other…
Boston Avenue School – DeLand, FL
Boston Avenue Elementary School was the school I attended from Kindergarten through the end of third grade, when the Volusia County School Board decided to close Boston Ave and Dempsey Brewster, another elementary school across town, and transfer us to the new Blue Lake Elementary School, which was just a few blocks north of my…