Capitol/Four Points Drive-In
Tallahassee, FL
June 8, 2016









Capitol/Four Points Drive-In
Tallahassee, FL
June 8, 2016
Following on from a couple of recent posts (here and here) I came across some relics of the original Walt Disney World Village in a book I got back in 1988 when I attended an art class at Disney World (for Junior High Art Club, an early boondoggle). First we have Louie Bellson in “The…
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 Silver Slipper was one of those places that could only exist in a small backwoods southern capitol city like Tallahassee. For 71 years it hosted all sorts of celebrities, politicians, crooks, etc (how could they tell them apart?). It’s original location was south of town closer to the Capitol itself. And this version lasted…
The day after Black Friday 2018, so Black Saturday?, what I would guess is still traditionally a busy shopping day, we risked a trip to what was once known as The Tallahassee Mall, now The Center of Tallahassee (even though its on the north side of town…), thinking that since the Big Game (UF/FSU) was…
This was the original location of Lucy Ho’s, a Tallahassee institution. Later in life it was known as Uforia (as can be seen on the signage), and there was a little bar off the right called Mark’s Bar, ran by a guy named Mark. Now (Feb 2018) it’s been demolished and something “new” is being…
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…