Gone but not forgotten in Jacksonville! (University, Parker: insurance, to live in, cost)

[dcarlo]

Originally Posted by Florida Ex-Pat

Ok, I was able to dig up some more old pics from home-

Also, I think that the other name for the crossroads was 'Mikler's Landing' or Mikler's or something like that.




Here is the sign that used to be there at the South Ponte Vedra Beach entrance- I have not been able to find it the past few times I have been home.

I like the pics ex pat you have a good eye for photography. It invokes so many good memories. I left Jax in 77 and moved to NY.We are now in the process of buying my family home in Jax.I have never toured the Brewery and I would like to see Ft. Caroline again. I remember going there as a child. I also plan to visit MOSH. They always have good exhibits going on there.Do you remember when the children's museum was on Riverside Av?
I remember a beautiful restaurant on Riversde called "La Masion" Anyone remember that? Bill Brazil's family had B&B exterminating and had a large house on Riverside Av. It is now an INN.With a restaurant.I spent alot of time walking in Memorial Park, I worked at Riverside hospital back in the 70s There use to be a large yellow victorian house in 5 points. It was the location of Pappagallo shoes. I also likeed the LaRose shoe store downtown



This is where we used to enter the beach, south of 'the Crossroads' and where the telephone poles crossed over. With a nice new blue Mercedes Benz 240D. In the distance ahead of the car, you can see the road takes a dip, if I remember right, on the far side of that depression is where all the kids used to paint the road with grafitti.






Here's one I found taken at Anastasia before they made the whole area a state park from the old surf shop near the Light house all the way to the ocean as it is now. Check out the vintage Toyota Carolla ;-) This is somewhere around 1985 or 1986.






And finally, here is another one taken from the old bridge on Roosevelt at Ortega. I see now that it must have been around Christmas time when I took these :-) 1986.

[majormadmax]

The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd went to Robert E. Lee High School. The band's name was a mocking tribute to a gym teacher, Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair.

Cheers! M2

[dcarlo]

Originally Posted by majormadmax

The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd went to Robert E. Lee High School. The band's name was a mocking tribute to a gym teacher, Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair.

Cheers! M2

yes, I remember that!! My sister is 3 years older than me and she went to school with Ronnie and Donnie. And then their younger brother, I forgot his name, I think it was Johnny, had the Austin Nichols Band. It was named after the makers of Wild Turkey Liquor. i CAN remember when Orange Park was just woods. All the way to Doctor's Inlet. I remember traveling to Palatka and the only thing on rt 17 in OP was a produce stand that also sold boiled peanuts, an inspection station and a grocery store.

[Parkerclassof72]

When I was in Arlington Jr High, we went to neighborhood dances at St Andrews Church. One of the bands that often played there was the "Almond Joys". They later renamed themselves the "Allman Brothers".

About 3 decades later I visited St Andrews; the hall where the dances were looks a lot smaller today than it looked to a ninth grader back then.

[Florida Ex-Pat]

Originally Posted by dcarlo

yes, I remember that!! My sister is 3 years older than me and she went to school with Ronnie and Donnie. And then their younger brother, I forgot his name, I think it was Johnny, had the Austin Nichols Band. It was named after the makers of Wild Turkey Liquor. i CAN remember when Orange Park was just woods. All the way to Doctor's Inlet. I remember traveling to Palatka and the only thing on rt 17 in OP was a produce stand that also sold boiled peanuts, an inspection station and a grocery store.

Lol! Yeah, We lived in Dr's Inlet when I was in 6th grade, so like 73-74 or something- US17 was still a 2 lane from OP all the way to Green Cove and there was a draw bridge there at Black creek- I remember when they first made it a 4 lane all the way through there, we would ride our bikes from SR220 all the way down to Green Cove just to go the the pool at the springs in the summer. The contest was to see who could ride the farthest with no hands on the handlebar lol- I think it's like 9 or 10 miles from SR220 to Black creek lol.

Oh, and I remember going to the movie theater there in GCS, there was still a door on the side and a sign that said 'Colored' or something like that and that was the 70's.

And then in high school we would sometimes go to the old Episcopal church there in Hibernia- one time we had a guy go out there and hide behind some gravestones in the cemetery there- with a mask and a fake meat cleaver we bought at Spencer's gifts in OP Mall- then we were to show up with some other friends that weren't in on the joke and wander through there and scare the hell out of them...... Trouble was, another group showed up before we got there, they apparently were football players.....

He jumped out,

He got decked....... ahahahahaha!

[orca17]

Oh, and I remember going to the movie theater there in GCS, there was still a door on the side and a sign that said 'Colored' or something like that and that was the 70's.

I am old enough to remember separate rest room facilities and water fountains in Hemming Park labeled "White" and "Colored". I also remember the signs on City Coach buses saying that "colored" had to sit in the rear.

Someone mentioned Paulus Music. As a former high school (and college) musician I did a lot of business with them - and their major competitor, Marvin Kay's Music Center.

Rexall Drug on North Main Street (at 65th Street, just south of Trout River). They had a lunch counter, with great burgers and cherry Pepsi (with the real cherry syrup). There was a lady named Pearl who worked the lunch counter for years. There were people who ate there most every day. I remember that the dispenser for Hires Root Beer looked like a big barrel. I went in the place when I was last in Jax about four years ago, and it has totally changed. The lunch counter is long gone. Ditto Lott's Barber Shop next door (where I got my hair cut for years). Lott's used to have a Coke machine where you could buy glass bottles for ten cents - the kind of machine with the metal lever you pushed down when you put your dime in, and the tall narrow door with glass that you opened and just pulled out whatever bottle you wanted. The original Joseph's Pizza is still there, though.

Remember Claude Nolan Cadillac on Main Street? Near downtown and Springfield, right next to the park with the big duck pond.

Iremembertoo mentioned Mike Renari of WAPE. I haven't thought of him in years.

[hansbronson]

Are there any older people on here (45 or older) who remembers the Mojo Man from WPDQ radio back in the early 70s before the Greaseman came to town A group of cheerleaders came up with a cheer that he used on his radio program that went something like this: Ah beep beep, six days a week, listen all you can to the Mojo Man, thats all that I remember from the cheer, but I see if you google mojo man that he has a website. I also remember as a young person back in the late 60s there was a skating rink on the westside on Casset Ave. called The Rollerdrome. Before the days of playing music from the latest music groups they had a guy who played the organ whos name was flash. Back then all we skated to was organ music, but his organ was blue in color and when he played the music lights would flash to the beat of the music on his organ, back then that was pretty cool. The rollerdrome became a pretty rough place during the 90s untill they closed it up, now they have made different shops (firehouse sub,etc.) out of the building. Normandy Mall was also a nice place to go as a teenager. I've read post from others about the mall but I don't remember anyone mentioning The Yellow Frog. That was the forerunner to Spencers Gifts that we have now. That was a good store to go to and get your blacklight posters from. Did any of yall have blacklight posters when yall were growing up. Peter Max had some neat posters back then. Also another item that I had that was popular in the late 60s were clackers and yoyos.

[Parkerclassof72]

I've become really nostalgic as I age, so I love this thread. I find it fascinating to hear about things it seems I should remember but don't.

Hansbronson, I've been here in Jax since 1968 (except for three years in the late 70's), so you'd think I'd remember the Mojo Man, but I don't.

If you want to shock young folks, tell them about when we listened to rock & roll on WAPE and WPDQ (690 and 600) on AM radios. And tell them car radios were AM only back then.

I lived (and still live) in Arlington; in the 60's-70's, teens rarely went to other parts of town, except for the beach of course, so I don't remember much about the Westside. We had a roller rink on Arlington also, on the corner of Lone Star and Mill Creek. The bldg is still there, it's been a branch of Fl Tech College for a long time.

[majormadmax]

Wow, rollerskating! I am surprised that hasn't come up before! I used to skate at a place over on Beach Blvd, I wish I could remember the name of it! This would be back in the late 70s, I was pretty good but would probably kill myself on a pair of skates now. However, with the recent popularity of these games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero, I get to hear some of the great songs I used to skate to, such as Foghat's Slow Ride or Foreigner's Long, Long Way From Home.

Also, the Midway drive-in theater was on Beach, wasn't it? We had some great times here in high school (Sandalwood classs of '81). I remember seeing some movie with Farah Fawcett in it where she is topless. It was only a brief appearance on screen, but the place went nuts! I think it may have been Saturn 3, but to be honest that was a long time ago...

Cheers! M2

[Parkerclassof72]

Yes, the Midway was on Beach Blvd, a few hundred yards west of Southside Blvd. It's now a SuperHell, oops, I mean a SuperWalMart.

We Parker students usually went to the University Drive-in on Univ. Blvd north of JU. It was a K-Mart for years, now it's a public library. A friend's dad had a black Buick Wildcat that had a huge trunk. I was once one of four hidden in that trunk to sneak in. Three of us got caught; they could have thrown us out, but made us pay instead.

The only specific movie I remember seeing there was Woodstock, my group of friends first real introduction to the emerging hippie culture.

Then there were those nights when a guy was with someone special, didn't care what was playing, and parked in the back row.