Other Jacksonville places gone by
August 11, 2012
August 11, 2012
A few snaps from our Thanksgiving 2016 trip to New Smyrna Beach (with the DeLand group to follow). We made a pilgrimage to The Bob Ross Art Workshop and Gallery, which was right next to the wonderful Schnaps ‘N Stuff and a brand new(!) Twistee Treat, still having the chocolate painted on! Right across from…
For years there was a McDonald’s/Circle K combo on Magnolia Ave in Tallahassee. Then one day it was gone. A new McDs had sprung up down the block (where an old forested lot used to be), and there are enough CircleKs around town that no one even noticed that missing. Now they’ve built what appears…
Here’s a few snaps from around the darker part of the so-called “All Saints District” in Tallahassee (before it all gets demolished and a McSomething-or-other gets erected in its place). Be careful of that white-unmarked-van (but note: while it may be unmarked, it most definitely in not un-tagged).
On December 31, 2017 ownership of Won Lee’s Chinese Restaurant in DeLand, FL passed to new owners, ending a nearly 40 year era. My family has a close relationship with Won Lee’s from the very beginning: my dad and my brother helped renovate the building from Jimmy’s Highway Steakhouse into Won Lee’s back in the…
On North Monroe Street in Tallahassee there used to be an enclosed mall creatively called “The Tallahassee Mall”. It was the second of three malls that used to service the Capital City (Northwood’s being the first, and Governor’s Square being the younger, and bigger brother). When I was first in Tallahassee for my two years…
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…