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Perry Hotels/Motels/Restaurants – Perry, FL
On one of my jaunts down US 27 to Central Florida I finally took time to stop and get a few snaps of the various hotels/motels/etc around Perry, FL, which at one point, before the interstates I’m sure, appears to have been a major stopping point for Yankees heading south, but today is just barely…

Calvary Baptist Church – DeLand, FL
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…

Other Jacksonville places gone by
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Six Gun Territory Reunion – Kirby Family Farm – Williston, FL – September 10, 2016
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.

McDonald’s Lot – Magnolia Ave – Tallahassee, FL
For years there was a McDonald’s/Circle K combo on Magnolia Ave in Tallahassee. Then one day it was gone. A new McDs had sprung up down the block (where an old forested lot used to be), and there are enough CircleKs around town that no one even noticed that missing. Now they’ve built what appears…
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…