Other Jacksonville places gone by
August 11, 2012
August 11, 2012
Off North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, FL
When I was a kid back in the 70’s there was pretty much one “major” shopping center in DeLand: Woodland Plaza. This place had everything. It had a Roses, it had a Winn Dixie (or was it a Pantry Pride, or maybe both at different points…), it had a Super-X drugstore (which sounds like an…
Ah, the old wall of candy and gum machines! There was a bank of these inside the Roses store in DeLand (it wasn’t a “discount” outfit then, it was still middle-of-the-road, I’m sure it was…) when I was a kid that I would covet over for hours (OK, I’m sure my dad only let me linger…
Near one of the dead ends of East Call Street in Tallahassee there’s a nice, small, old-school-type house for sale. And in the back there is a dilapidated garden shed right out of a nice grind-house horror film! You can tell there was probably a very impressive garden area around it, about 70 years ago. …
A few snaps from our Thanksgiving 2016 trip to New Smyrna Beach (with the DeLand group to follow). We made a pilgrimage to The Bob Ross Art Workshop and Gallery, which was right next to the wonderful Schnaps ‘N Stuff and a brand new(!) Twistee Treat, still having the chocolate painted on! Right across from…