Capitol Drive-In, aka Four Points Drive-In
Capitol/Four Points Drive-In
Tallahassee, FL
June 8, 2016
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…
It has probably been 25 years since I stepped foot into the Sweet Shop across from the FSU campus, and while a lot has changed at FSU over those years there’s a lot of the 96 year old Sweet Shop that is still the same. I was disappointed to see that the juke box which…
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…
A few pictures of the old Coca-cola Bottling Plant in the so-called “All Saints District” of Tallahassee. This dates back to when this part of town was the “industrial” hub of the area, mainly because its adjacent to the main rail artery of the region. Most of the building in the area have either…
A few snaps of the Tallahassee Toys-R-Us before its gone forever.