Elk Hotel – New York City
This crazy remnant was loitering on the wall behind Waterworks, what could it be? The last time I was in Waterworks it wasn’t even yet Waterworks, it was still the old Kent’s Northside Lounge. And I was only there a couple of times, my old-man-dive-bar back then was the Office Lounge, and while Office Regulars (of…
On one of my jaunts down US 27 to Central Florida I finally took time to stop and get a few snaps of the various hotels/motels/etc around Perry, FL, which at one point, before the interstates I’m sure, appears to have been a major stopping point for Yankees heading south, but today is just barely…
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…
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. …
Its been just over a year since Wild Waters in Silver Springs, FL was finally closed (a result of the State of Florida taking over it and it’s sister park, Silver Springs, as well as the aging infrastructure of the park itself and cost to maintain/upgrade). I’d been to this water park more than any…