Gumball Machine Sighting
Pizza Hut, NE Capital Circle, Tallahassee, FL
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…
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…
It has probably been 25 years since I stepped foot into the Sweet Shop across from the FSU campus, and while a lot has changed at FSU over those years there’s a lot of the 96 year old Sweet Shop that is still the same. I was disappointed to see that the juke box which…
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…