Other Jacksonville places gone by
August 11, 2012
August 11, 2012
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.
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…
Well, we have evacuated Tallahassee for a few days due to the fact that it received a direct hit by Hurricane Hermine Thursday night and the local utilities are exhibiting exceptional incompetence in getting power back in place for over 80K houses. So we drove up 319 40 miles to Thomasville and wondered around the…
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…
Built in 1971, this was a 160 unit motel with what was billed as a large lobby area, restaurant and conference rooms. It was two stories with concrete block construction and a brick veneer. The property was 3.4 acres and zoned CP “Commercial” with 400 feet frontage and a full median cut. The 2007 property…