Enjoying traces of the past in Gainesville, Alachua County, and surrounding places in the great state of Florida.
04/12/2022
Club meeting 4/11/22 The Club convened at a site that would have seen a lot of traffic years ago. The Suburbia Center Drive-In opened in 1952 with parking room for 700 vehicles. In the early 1970s it operated for a time showing adult movies (we're trying to imagine how that would go over now). Around 1973 they built two...
03/01/2022
Gainesville streets renamed. Twice. You know Cypress and Grove brewery? So named because the streets it corners, NW 10th Ave and 4th Street, were once named . . . Cypress and Grove. A nice key to the eras of names attached at the bottom of this post.
03/01/2022
Riding a horse down 4th Ave?
There are still places in Gainesville where you may conveniently alight. Don't drop your cellphone in the process.
02/04/2022
Opening of the 200th Frisch's Big Boy Restaurant, 1965, Gainesville, FL.
2035 NW 13th St