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When I heard a few months ago that there had been an accident on the Daytona Beach Boardwalk’s rollercoaster I knew it’s days had to be numbered. And a quick swing by there this week confirmed that most of the rides are already gone, with only two (that I don’t think were even operational) and the rollercoaster itself left. Who knows how long they’ll linger there, and who knows what will replace them.
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Well, we’ve reached another milestone here at PGB: we’ve run out of space. So we now have to either pay up more clams, or finally make the big migration to the main Scrod Group hosting joint. We’re going with the latter, but this takes some orchestration, which we really don’t have time for with all…
While I was waiting at the meeting point for this week’s tailgate (NC State at FSU) I wandered.over to the case station/convenience store on the corner, which apparently is now closed and based on other areas of Tally probably slated to be torn down and replaced with something even more obnoxious. Since the building appears…
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…
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Following on from a couple of recent posts (here and here) I came across some relics of the original Walt Disney World Village in a book I got back in 1988 when I attended an art class at Disney World (for Junior High Art Club, an early boondoggle). First we have Louie Bellson in “The…
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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.