Other Jacksonville places gone by
August 11, 2012
August 11, 2012
Its been just over a year since Wild Waters in Silver Springs, FL was finally closed (a result of the State of Florida taking over it and it’s sister park, Silver Springs, as well as the aging infrastructure of the park itself and cost to maintain/upgrade). I’d been to this water park more than any…
Near one of the dead ends of East Call Street in Tallahassee there’s a nice, small, old-school-type house for sale. And in the back there is a dilapidated garden shed right out of a nice grind-house horror film! You can tell there was probably a very impressive garden area around it, about 70 years ago. …
When I was a kid back in the 70’s there was pretty much one “major” shopping center in DeLand: Woodland Plaza. This place had everything. It had a Roses, it had a Winn Dixie (or was it a Pantry Pride, or maybe both at different points…), it had a Super-X drugstore (which sounds like an…
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…
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).