Elk Hotel – New York City
Back in the 1970’s my family would from time to time spend a week or so in Clearwater Beach, FL, and we would stay at the interstingly named Ritz Hotel. Usually a lodging establishment with the name of “The Ritz” would invoke images of a grand resort, but in this case it was more of…
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…
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…
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…
On North Monroe Street in Tallahassee there used to be an enclosed mall creatively called “The Tallahassee Mall”. It was the second of three malls that used to service the Capital City (Northwood’s being the first, and Governor’s Square being the younger, and bigger brother). When I was first in Tallahassee for my two years…