August 11, 2012




August 11, 2012
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…
Lafayette MotelTallahassee, FLApril 22, 2014This is another one from the old Blog Host that stayed in draft mode forever. It was uploaded on June 11, 2016 but the pictures are from 2014. The pictures were also taken on an older phone so the quality and size aren’t as good as we’re getting now.
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…
On one of my jaunts down US 27 to Central Florida I finally took time to stop and get a few snaps of the various hotels/motels/etc around Perry, FL, which at one point, before the interstates I’m sure, appears to have been a major stopping point for Yankees heading south, but today is just barely…
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…
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…