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Corner of South Florida Ave and Beresford Ave
I’d forgotten about Friendly Way stores, and as best I can tell this may be the only one left. I’m pretty sure the convenience store on New York Ave just East of Blue Lake Ave, near where I grew up, was a Friendly Way as well, but that’s going back 30+ years. In any case, it’s nice to see this sign and store still hanging on.
Calvary Baptist Church was my family’s church for decades. This was the church my father went to when he was a kid, and of course the one my brother and I both went to when we were kids. My father was baptized by Rev. Leslie Colding…who also happens to be the same person my mother…
South Woodland Blvd
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…
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…
We’d done a final trip just prior to the Tallahassee, FL Toy-R-Us closing on April 22, 2018. Earlier this week I did another trip across town to get a look at the bare hull of the place. There is really nothing but the building left at this point, with the lone exception of a final…
A few snaps from our Thanksgiving 2016 trip to New Smyrna Beach (with the DeLand group to follow). We made a pilgrimage to The Bob Ross Art Workshop and Gallery, which was right next to the wonderful Schnaps ‘N Stuff and a brand new(!) Twistee Treat, still having the chocolate painted on! Right across from…