i remember when...

[jasonc]

some of these places did remain open when I was a boy and young man. skiscim. I met him and he taught me to love photography. simply aim and squeeze and find a subject you like and was very humble and inspiring. he served in ww2 and was a navy photographer and map maker and flew recon for doing that. he also had a film studio and also would hire one and sold film/cameras . he retired in the late 90s. this ad is from the 50s.

 

[for_his_glory]

I like old newspapers and their adds, especially the different phone numbers back in the day. This is an ad my Grandfather had in the newspaper back in 1956 selling the two room trailer my Mom, Dad, two sisters and I lived in when I was two years old before moving into a house. Notice the phone number and the price. Couldn't buy one for that price today.

 

[jasonc]

I can dig up more from this paper .

I posted an image of that turf club as it is now.

 

[for_his_glory]

It is amazing even where I am from with the old beautiful architect how modern a place becomes without taking the time to see the frame of the whole town back in the day when these buildings were fashion and built.

 

[Luminous_Rose]

It is crazy how prices have really gone up. A two bedroom trailer now costs...oh about $30,000 without land lol.

 

[Bull of the Woods]

I remember paying 34 cents a gallon for gas.

 

[Bull of the Woods]

I backpacked a lot as a young man. Some long several months trips.
Periodically I needed a motel room for a night to shower and wash clothes and shop for more food.
Always stayed at Motel Six because it cost, yup, six dollars.

 

[daninthelionsden]

It is amazing even where I am from with the old beautiful architect how modern a place becomes without taking the time to see the frame of the whole town back in the day when these buildings were fashion and built.

I've always been drawn to architecture. I really like old small town buildings and loved Galveston's unique structures back in the neighborhoods. Buildings in Hawaii have been interesting.

 

[for_his_glory]

Houses here in Titusville where built in the mid 1800's when Edwin Drake struck oil making Drake's Well pretty famous. This was a mega oil booming town at one time making many a rich person who built beautiful mansions that still exist today. If you Google beautiful mansions in Titusville, PA you can see all the pics. I love driving by these homes and would love to see the inside of them.

 

[for_his_glory]

I remember paying 34 cents a gallon for gas.

I remember when it was 25 a gallon back in the 60's. This is the country mercantile store where we shopped at when I was a kid growing up in the 50's to the early 70's. Kinda like the mercantile on Little House on the Prairie show as it had everything you could possibly need.The front porch was taken down and another rebuilt later on. The picture doesn't really give it justice.

 

[jasonc]

I remember when it was 25 a gallon back in the 60's. This is the country mercantile store where we shopped at when I was a kid growing up in the 50's to the early 70's. Kinda like the mercantile on Little House on the Prairie show as it had everything you could possibly need.The front porch was taken down and another rebuilt later on. The picture doesn't really give it justice.

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these were common and I can still find them in florida. one such in western st.lucie county and also okechobee. there is one that sells gas that was known has handy corner and still stands as a convience store. there is also the newer feed store that sells gas and well hay and tack for horses.

local grocers that I remember or know of. Allison's, Weiss, jun's grocery, smith's, colley's, bishop's, keens food town, mosley's. a few of this still are around. colley's and mosley's and smiths are still around but are a local version of convience store with a shell to remind you what they were when food was grown locally. the sons of keen have a store on the beach.

 

[for_his_glory]

The days of yesterday should always be remembered and embraced in all it's simplicity, beauty and lifestyle that once made America great in the heartland.

 

[jasonc]

Historical preservation and the society is where I got the names of jun's grocery and a few others .I remember Weiss,Allison and handy corner,keens

 

[jasonc]

New Post-Worthy Orange Bird Inspired Wall at Disney Springs

If you follow us on Instagram you’ve probably noticed Disney Springs has a new mural dedicated to our favorite Orange Bird and it’s my new favorite photo opp. (Hello new #WallsofDisney addition!) While this wall mural may be new, Orange Bird is

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The orange bird was something I didn't know was a Disney thing .he was on a stand south of the county line .

 

[Bull of the Woods]

The days of yesterday should always be remembered and embraced in all it's simplicity, beauty and lifestyle that once made America great in the heartland.

Not always simple and beautiful. A little general store near me was called "Jew Meyers" by everyone I knew. Their son, Jay, was in my class and treated very poorly because he was a Jew.
Turner's Station was the sub town where blacks had to live. Didn't receive the quality of services and schools other areas got.

 

[daninthelionsden]

Not always simple and beautiful. A little general store near me was called "Jew Meyers" by everyone I knew. Their son, Jay, was in my class and treated very poorly because he was a Jew.
Turner's Station was the sub town where blacks had to live. Didn't receive the quality of services and schools other areas got.

The refinery where I worked was built many decades ago and parts of it were shut down due to age and inefficiency. Those sections were not torn down and were regarded as a sort of museum. Valves were shown to me that had nazi emblems on them as they had been imported from nazi Germany before the war. I was taken on a tour by a black guy and shown the bricked over back window of the cafeteria where blacks had to go to get their meals. They were not allowed inside. I was also shown places where people died. One Christian prison minister who worked there told me of a basement reported to be "haunted", he was shown the basement and reported a coldness swept over him and he had never experienced fear like that and quickly left.

 

[jasonc]

Not always simple and beautiful. A little general store near me was called "Jew Meyers" by everyone I knew. Their son, Jay, was in my class and treated very poorly because he was a Jew.
Turner's Station was the sub town where blacks had to live. Didn't receive the quality of services and schools other areas got.

Sadly I can post that.

The Gifford segregated schools,which blacks built ,the removed homesteads of espy,Geoffrey and also the name for Gifford is the white man,its settledment is browns Ville,espy,geoffrey homesteads.the navy took from all but brown who had Brownsville.

Then there is calabash,you can look that up in st.Lucie county .

 

[for_his_glory]

Not always simple and beautiful. A little general store near me was called "Jew Meyers" by everyone I knew. Their son, Jay, was in my class and treated very poorly because he was a Jew.
Turner's Station was the sub town where blacks had to live. Didn't receive the quality of services and schools other areas got.

I guess it all depends where you lived. I could only imagine it would have been different living in cities compared to living in small communities in the country like I did and still do.