Other Jacksonville places gone by
August 11, 2012
August 11, 2012
When I was a kid we did a couple of weekend trips an hour or so north of DeLand to Silver Springs, FL, and at the time there were two major attractions to go to: Silver Springs itself, and Six Gun Territory.
Pizza Hut, NE Capital Circle, Tallahassee, FL
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…
We took a short (about 10 mile) drive up Miccosukee Road this afternoon to a you-pick-em blue berry orchard: Jubilee Orchards. It was a nice way to spend a not too warm spring Sunday, except of course for the gnats… But in any case we would highly recommend heading out there, but you’d better hurry,…
Update from March 30, 2015 – The Ming Tree has been demolished and construction is underway on its replacement, Maddio’s Pizza, plus a few other stores.
I stopped into The Other Place, or rather the place formerly known as The Other Place, in July 2017 to snap a few pics before some greedy developer snags up this prime slice of real estate (now that the Hard Rock is in town I’m sure there’s going to be a development buzz….). I vaguely…