Phone Booth – DeLand, FL – August 13, 2017
South Woodland Blvd
South Woodland Blvd
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 couple from the back-log, this could also be posted in PlacesGoneBy[e]’s sister blog A Scrod In New York, but its more fitting here I think. This phone booth was just off the terrace over Wollman Rink in Central Park (which doubles as a carnival in the summer). I went back by there in 2017…
Calvary Baptist Church was my family’s church for decades. This was the church my father went to when he was a kid, and of course the one my brother and I both went to when we were kids. My father was baptized by Rev. Leslie Colding…who also happens to be the same person my mother…
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…