Something a little different to look at today: a “tourist” map of Central Florida from 1993 provided by Pringle Development of Leesburg, FL. A full-size version of the map can be found here.






Something a little different to look at today: a “tourist” map of Central Florida from 1993 provided by Pringle Development of Leesburg, FL. A full-size version of the map can be found here.
Unlike some of the brochures we’ve highlighted recently, including this one on Pleasure Island’s older sister, this one from Disney’s Pleasure Island is easy to pin down to Spring 1993. For one thing it flat out tells us that its prior to Summer 1993 (see the Coming Soon pic for Pleasure Island Jazz Company), and…
When I was a kid back in the 70’s there was pretty much one “major” shopping center in DeLand: Woodland Plaza. This place had everything. It had a Roses, it had a Winn Dixie (or was it a Pantry Pride, or maybe both at different points…), it had a Super-X drugstore (which sounds like an…
The Silver Slipper was one of those places that could only exist in a small backwoods southern capitol city like Tallahassee. For 71 years it hosted all sorts of celebrities, politicians, crooks, etc (how could they tell them apart?). It’s original location was south of town closer to the Capitol itself. And this version lasted…