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.

Abandoned | DeLand | Schools

Boston Avenue School – DeLand, FL

Byplacesgoneby September 21, 2013

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…

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…

Florida | Stores | Tallahassee

Toys-were-Us – one final look

Byretroscrod May 2, 2018

We’d done a final trip just prior to the Tallahassee, FL Toy-R-Us closing on April 22, 2018. Earlier this week I did another trip across town to get a look at the bare hull of the place. There is really nothing but the building left at this point, with the lone exception of a final…