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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…
Florida Welcome Station, aka Florida Citrus Center
Sunday, May 29, 2016 I-75 Exit 404 18625 NW County Road 236 High Springs, FL 32643 This is a classic stop, mostly because it is steeped with that classic mid-70’s feel, which probably because most of the items in the shop look like they’ve been there since the mid-70’s. Tourists are lured in with the…
Gum/candy Machines – Zaxbys N Tallahassee – September 29, 2017
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…
Woodland Plaza – DeLand, FL
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…
One Last Time, for now… Won Lee’s Chinese Restaurant – DeLand, Fl
On December 31, 2017 ownership of Won Lee’s Chinese Restaurant in DeLand, FL passed to new owners, ending a nearly 40 year era. My family has a close relationship with Won Lee’s from the very beginning: my dad and my brother helped renovate the building from Jimmy’s Highway Steakhouse into Won Lee’s back in the…
The Other Place – Ormond Beach, FL
I stopped into The Other Place, or rather the place formerly known as The Other Place, in July 2017 to snap a few pics before some greedy developer snags up this prime slice of real estate (now that the Hard Rock is in town I’m sure there’s going to be a development buzz….). I vaguely…