Mailbox – Gadsden & E. Park, Tallahassee, FL
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…
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…
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…
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…
This crazy remnant was loitering on the wall behind Waterworks, what could it be? The last time I was in Waterworks it wasn’t even yet Waterworks, it was still the old Kent’s Northside Lounge. And I was only there a couple of times, my old-man-dive-bar back then was the Office Lounge, and while Office Regulars (of…