Capitol Drive-In, aka Four Points Drive-In
Capitol/Four Points Drive-In
Tallahassee, FL
June 8, 2016
Capitol/Four Points Drive-In
Tallahassee, FL
June 8, 2016
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. …
This was the original location of Lucy Ho’s, a Tallahassee institution. Later in life it was known as Uforia (as can be seen on the signage), and there was a little bar off the right called Mark’s Bar, ran by a guy named Mark. Now (Feb 2018) it’s been demolished and something “new” is being…
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…
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…
In late-mid January (2018) I was leaving the Publix down the street close to closing time and notice the requisite green weight scale sitting in the foyer (is that what they’re called in stores?), and a wave a trepidation flooded through me: were they getting rid of this dinosaur? So I snapped a quick pic…
Update from March 30, 2015 – The Ming Tree has been demolished and construction is underway on its replacement, Maddio’s Pizza, plus a few other stores.