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A late Memorial Day weekend Saturday at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk, or what’s left of it. I remember coming here as a kid many times, and there’s even a family link, all of which I’ll go into in other posts other times. For now, I want to get the pics posted before I go too far down the rabbit hole again and they never get out there. So here, for your consideration, is Joyland, The Mardi Gras Family Fun Center, Pizza King, Stamie’s Swimwear, and the Daytona Beach Clock Tower.
I took a ride south of town this afternoon to see if there was anything already being prepared for the 2017 North Florida Fair, which run November 2 – 12, and sure enough there were a few trailers already being placed in the open field. We had such a good time last year (here and here),…
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.
I stayed a night at the recently renovated Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach (I’m still deciding on whether I review that here or not, but for now suffice it to say I wasn’t impressed), and I was able to take a few shots of some neat old houses and buildings around the hotel, which I…
I’d heard a while back that Wet ‘n Wild, the first major water-theme park in Central Florida (and at the time of its opening in 1977 the largest in the world), was closing this year, and honestly thought it had already done so. Last week when we were down there (more on that in other…