Florida fresh, 1966.
(Alvin Lederer Collection)
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Designed and installed new signage for Atlas. Take heed lest ye fall. (Taken with Instagram at The Atlas. Bloomington, IN)
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Retail Death
After plenty of rumors, haggling by developers, banks, it was announced last week that the Palm Beach Mall will finally be demolished to make way for new outlet stores in 2013.
It opened up as a shoppers playground in 1967 and I spent many a teenage night there with friends doing laps on the terrazzo floor and sucking down Orange Julius. It went through some uglification (remodeling) in the 1980’s and again in 2000, but that didn’t stop it from falling victim to urban decay. Competition from City Place with its sanitized Italian piazza vibe was the final nail in the coffin.
If you enjoy the slight discomfort or fascination with images of retail death as much as I do, check out out happypalms Flickr stream or my PB Mall set on Flickr.
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I’m hungry for Wolfie’s in Miami.
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Lamentation for a Tree
Florida’s oldest tree made the world news yesterday when it burned down in Longwood and citizens are calling for an immediate report about how this could happen.
I know some people may think “big deal! Florida has knocked down many trees”, but the “Senator” represented a link to Florida’s natural history. It gave you a glimpse of what Florida was like before the mouse, condos, and developers came to carve out the land for profit. Actually at over 3000 years old it was already here before the first Europeans even laid eyes on the peninsula.Many states have something that you can look at or experience that symbolizes the past, but in a way this tree was like our Grand Canyon. Of course you don’t just burn down the Grand Canyon and it goes away, but you can burn down a tree and it’s gone forever. The “Senator” may not have been a popular tourist destination, but unless you live another couple thousand years you will never see a tree like this again in our state.
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Dark clouds looming over Treasure Island, 1963.
(Alvin Lederer Collection)
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Florida spaces, 1953.
(Florida Architectural, PC)
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Grab a sandwich at Ralph’s. Daytona Beach, 1930’s.
(SOF General Collection)
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This day 48 years ago, President John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 pm, on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
