North Florida Fair – 2017
A few snaps from today’s venture to the next-to-last-day of the 2017 North Florida Fair. See it before it was setup in an earlier post here.
A few snaps from today’s venture to the next-to-last-day of the 2017 North Florida Fair. See it before it was setup in an earlier post here.
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…
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…
This crazy remnant was loitering on the wall behind Waterworks, what could it be? The last time I was in Waterworks it wasn’t even yet Waterworks, it was still the old Kent’s Northside Lounge. And I was only there a couple of times, my old-man-dive-bar back then was the Office Lounge, and while Office Regulars (of…
I stayed a night at the recently renovated Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach (I’m still deciding on whether I review that here or not, but for now suffice it to say I wasn’t impressed), and I was able to take a few shots of some neat old houses and buildings around the hotel, which I…
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…