After the suspicious fire at the historic Putnam Hotel earlier this year, just weeks after it was sold, I figured I’d better get by there again to get some more snaps before it falls to the inevitable, regardless of what the new owners say.




















After the suspicious fire at the historic Putnam Hotel earlier this year, just weeks after it was sold, I figured I’d better get by there again to get some more snaps before it falls to the inevitable, regardless of what the new owners say.
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…
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.
May 28, 2016Daytona Beach Boardwalk A late Memorial Day weekend Saturday at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk, or what’s left of it. I remember coming here as a kid many times, and there’s even a family link, all of which I’ll go into in other posts other times. For now, I want to get the pics…
Today we have a small reminder of a once great drinking (and eating, but the drinks were always better than the food in my opinion) establishment in North Tallahassee. Julie’s Place is long gone (it was bought by a one-time manager sometime in the early 00’s and I guess he didn’t understand that running a…