Gumball Machine Sighting
Pizza Hut, NE Capital Circle, Tallahassee, FL
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…
Capitol/Four Points Drive-In Tallahassee, FL June 8, 2016
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…
In a post from last week I mentioned going to a store called Roses when I was a kid back in DeLand. I hadn’t been in a Roses in nearly 30 years (the one back home closed and was then taken out by a tornado in the mid/late-90’s). But little did I know that a few…
For years there was a McDonald’s/Circle K combo on Magnolia Ave in Tallahassee. Then one day it was gone. A new McDs had sprung up down the block (where an old forested lot used to be), and there are enough CircleKs around town that no one even noticed that missing. Now they’ve built what appears…
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…