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Shangri-La Motel – 805 N Dixie Fwy, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168 (and Dairy Queen)
I made a quick stop on US 1 in New Smyrna Beach to get a few snaps of the classic “Dairy Queen”, but the joint next to it, the Shangri-La Motel, was even more classic. I did manage to get one from the DQ, but they were cleaning the outside and looking at me suspiciously,…
Boston Avenue School – DeLand, FL
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…
Matchbook Anthropology – Treasure Village
Back in 2015 I stopped in to grab a few snaps of the burnt-out Uforia Restaurant in Tallahassee, and noted that before it was Uforia it had been a Lucy Ho’s for some time. Today, through some matchbook anthropology, I find that before even Miss Ho had the joint there was an even earlier Asian…
A quiçkie while I wait….Old Chevron Station in Tallahassee – Corner of Ocala and Pensacola
While I was waiting at the meeting point for this week’s tailgate (NC State at FSU) I wandered.over to the case station/convenience store on the corner, which apparently is now closed and based on other areas of Tally probably slated to be torn down and replaced with something even more obnoxious. Since the building appears…
Ming Tree Chinese Restaurant – Tallahassee, FL (Updated March 30, 2015)
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