Publix Scales – Background
Following up on this post about my local neighborhood Publix’s scale, we see at TampaBay.com the history of said scales, and learn that only Publix’s in Florida have them. Who knew?
Following up on this post about my local neighborhood Publix’s scale, we see at TampaBay.com the history of said scales, and learn that only Publix’s in Florida have them. Who knew?
Update from March 30, 2015 – The Ming Tree has been demolished and construction is underway on its replacement, Maddio’s Pizza, plus a few other stores.
Ah, the old wall of candy and gum machines! There was a bank of these inside the Roses store in DeLand (it wasn’t a “discount” outfit then, it was still middle-of-the-road, I’m sure it was…) when I was a kid that I would covet over for hours (OK, I’m sure my dad only let me linger…
Going into the backlog of things never published (this post was actually uploaded on June 5, 2016) we find our trip to the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh back in July 2011. What’s so interesting about a mall you may ask? Well, this isn’t just any mall, this, of course, is THE mall that “Dawn of the…
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…
Corner of South Florida Ave and Beresford Ave I’d forgotten about Friendly Way stores, and as best I can tell this may be the only one left. I’m pretty sure the convenience store on New York Ave just East of Blue Lake Ave, near where I grew up, was a Friendly Way as well, but…
When I was a kid we did a couple of weekend trips an hour or so north of DeLand to Silver Springs, FL, and at the time there were two major attractions to go to: Silver Springs itself, and Six Gun Territory.