Other Jacksonville places gone by

Byplacesgoneby August 12, 2012March 7, 2024

August 11, 2012

Hotels | Jacksonville | Restaurants | Roadside

Chopstick Charlie’s and The Joe Hotel

Byplacesgoneby August 12, 2012March 7, 2024

Abandoned | DeLand | Schools

Boston Avenue School – DeLand, FL

Byplacesgoneby September 21, 2013

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…

Hotels | Roadside | Silver Springs

Sun Plaza Motel – Silver Spring Florida

Byplacesgoneby September 22, 2013

Florida | Phone Booths | Roadside

Phone – Palm Harbor, FL

Byretroscrod July 22, 2018

Abandoned | DeLand | Demolished | Stores

Woodland Plaza – DeLand, FL

Byplacesgoneby September 21, 2013

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…

Clearwater Beach | Florida | Hotels

The Ritz Hotel – Clearwater Beach, FL

Byretroscrod July 22, 2018

Back in the 1970’s my family would from time to time spend a week or so in Clearwater Beach, FL, and we would stay at the interstingly named Ritz Hotel. Usually a lodging establishment with the name of “The Ritz” would invoke images of a grand resort, but in this case it was more of…

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