Gone but not forgotten in Jacksonville! (University, Orange Park: waterpark, pharmacy, groceries)

[Parkerclassof72]

Originally Posted by ggregchap

Good Grief...all these FM stations.....we had WPDQ and WAPE "back in the day" and that was it....with the likes of Bob Smith, Charlie Tuna, Bruce Cramer and the MoJo Man spinnig those ole' wax LP's to the delight of their Weekend audiences of young rock and roll hounds....gooooood stuff......Beach Boys...Beatles....The Doors...The Rolling Stones...Janis Joplin....Jimi Hendrix....Moody Blues....and Jacksonvilles own Classic IV....man....Ya'll have a great afternoon, my friends !!!

......... and, WPDQ and WAPE were AM stations - tell teens that today and they'll think we grew up in the Dark Ages.

[ggregchap]

Well, Parker....perhaps you are right. I was watching a movie that had a DIAL pay phone recently with my nephew who is in his 20's and he asked what that was....and I had to explain that it was a pay telephone....he said he figured that but what was the "wheel thing" and I had to explain that was the dial...no push buttons....for pity's sake. It may have been the "Dark Ages' but the time and the Music...especially the music....have NOT been equaled...and it was good growing up then...you could actually walk home from Regency Square Mall and not be concerned about "will I make it home" but that it may take a while....simpler times...good times...and do you remeber that when "TouchTone" phones came out...the "#" and the " * " had NO functions...until a couple of years later when they came out with the Call Features. OMG !!!!

[jetsfan16]

Look at this video from 1990, showing the old Jacksonville skyline, with the Independent Life Building, and the old Fuller Warren Bridge.


YouTube - Jacksonville, Florida

I remember going to trips in Florida from Charleston, and I remember the Fuller Warren as a drawbridge, and the long waits on 95 there would be if it opened.

[ravennation430]

I only lived in jacksonvillein the 1968 and 1969 years but it was a great time. Lynyrd Skynryd playing at greenfield stables for free what a great time. My friends and i were i guess you would call it skynyrd groupies. We ent everywhere they played. Once went to an outdoor overnight concert downh around gainesville fl and they were just awesome and nobody there even knew who they were,after they played people knew them.I also remember the Jacksonville Rockets from back then. I use to see two girls named Joe and Rossilyn they were hot. Back to hockey they were some bad teams but they had a good fighter in jean therrein. Anyway just stummbled onto this site and thought i would leave a message.

[jetsfan16]

Do you remember the Jaguars playoff run in 1996, when they made the AFC championship in their second year of existence. I remember that, and they had about 15,000 people there with their welcome back after they beat the Broncos.

Here's a video of some of the run:


YouTube - Believe-Jacksonville Jaguars

[word of mouse]

As a media producer of the super rabbit and the chicken man, I must remind you that the chicken man ended up owning a beautiful condo penthouse in Cabo San Lucas Mexico and real estate holdings in Buckhead in Atlanta. They both were fun loving guys having a good time making a living. Not a bad testimonial for the day to day grind of making a business work.

[orca17]

...and Jacksonvilles own Classic IV

Lead singer Dennis Yost is listed as an alumnus of Andrew Jackson HS. He must have been a few years ahead of me, because I don't remember him from school.

My parents took my sister and me to see Johnny Tillotson perform in town in the 1960s. They had go-go dancers (remember those?). I still have the program that Tillotson signed after the show.

[docmontana]

Folks, I was wondering if anyone could refresh my memory about t.v.
in the late seventies. What were some of the locally produced shows
and who were the personalities? i remember T.V. Pow with Safari Sam
(pow----pow-pow-pow), but that may have been more early eighties.
I'm looking for "Elvira" type host, wrestling commentators and just
a general sense of what local Jax. t.v. was like in say, '78, 79'.

[majormadmax]

Can't forget Skipper Ed!

Cheers! M2

[RockSteadyVibe]

I remember Safari Sam. I grew up watching him and K.C. Fox on the Fox 30 Kids Club. Weekday mornings and afternoons, and Saturdays too, in the '90s.

Fox 30, and also Channel 47 (WNFT, now WTEV) had cartoons in the mornings and afternoons. Especially Channel 47, before Fox 30 took over that station (later UPN, now a CBS affiliate).

Those were the days, to us kids of the '80s and '90s in Jacksonville.