Daytona Boardwalk Midway – Dark and Empty

Byretroscrod November 2, 2017

Amusement Parks | Florida | Tallahassee

North Florida Fair – 2017

Byretroscrod November 11, 2017

A few snaps from today’s venture to the next-to-last-day of the 2017 North Florida Fair. See it before it was setup in an earlier post here.

Coin-Ops | Daytona

Cigarette Machine – Ocean Deck – Daytona Beach

Byretroscrod November 2, 2017

Daytona

I stayed a night at the recently renovated Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach (I’m still deciding on whether I review that here or not, but for now suffice it to say I wasn’t impressed), and I was able to take a few shots of some neat old houses and buildings around the hotel, which I…

Amusement Parks | Arcades | Daytona

Daytona Boardwalk

Byplacesgoneby May 30, 2016

May 28, 2016 Daytona Beach Boardwalk A late Memorial Day weekend Saturday at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk, or what’s left of it. I remember coming here as a kid many times,

Amusement Parks | Arcades | Daytona | Hotels | Roadside

Daytona Beach – just after Hurricane Matthew – October 13 2016

Byretroscrod October 13, 2016

Daytona Beach just after Hurricane Matthew, October 13, 2016. This first group of pictures is on A1A and the Hilton Hotel. The hotel I was originally booked in for the night, The Plaza, didn’t are too well as you can see; in fact it looked a bit like The Tower of Terror in one picture. The…

Abandoned | Amusement Parks | Demolished | Florida | Orlando

The Last Splash – or – Not So Wet, Not So Wild

Byretroscrod December 26, 2016

I’d heard a while back that Wet ‘n Wild, the first major water-theme park in Central Florida (and at the time of its opening in 1977 the largest in the world), was closing this year, and honestly thought it had already done so. Last week when we were down there (more on that in other…