Very cool video..👍🏼

Super 8 frames don't look too bad. I wish I had a better transfer for you to pull stills from.

Worked at Roosevelt mall at Woolworth's in the early 80s. Worked with Allen Collins' Mother(from Freebird.) She said she was working on getting Freebird to be the Official song of Florida. First thing everyday, go to aquariums and fish out dead fish, so customers would not see them. Best thing was the Sandwich counter. Good burgers and fries, and Shakes! but made 3.35 an hour, so not alot of eating out!😂 PS. I was hoping to find footage, home movie type of harbormasters in the 80s. It was a happening spot.

Anybody know the pink hotel's name before it got demolished in 2001?

You are definitely an interesting person and I’m intrigued to see what you have to share about this historical place. Thank you for all your efforts and insights.

I went to high school right next door to the studio and always wondered what it was. Thank you so much!

the story is that gateway mall was built on a burial site where people were buried at from the yellow fever time.. i grew up just east of mall behind the old main street drive in..

THIS IS REAL GOOD INFO

My junior (1995) and senior prom (1996) were held there in the West Club.

Thunderbird lounge "NEW WAVE NIght Thursdays" the best

I was there that Day in May to see Janis Joplin Perform. It was a great concert.

I loved every second of this! This is exactly how it was growing up in Jacksonville. My brother and I climbed up channel 30 tower in ‘85, thanks for the memories ❤️

How long before Flix sells off the newer Greyhound depot? They are not into buses or terminals. They are simply a broker for bus services and routes. I give it maybe 5 years--maybe--before Flix phases Greyhound out completely, after they've sold off all remaining terminals and the bus leases expire. Then Flix will be another Megabus operation entirely.

Did you know that Cineplex Odeon opened 11 new theatres on December 18th, 1987 including the Mandarin 6? They also opened in Calgary, Edmonton, Montréal, Newark, Provo, Rocky Mount, 3 in Toronto and in Washington.

Regency Theater was a unique design by architect Bob Broward.

My family arrived in Jax during the winter of 1962, due to a job offer my dad had received. Within 3 months of arrival he was dead due to 'foul play under color of authority' - no prosecutions. Mom ended up in the State Hospital in Macclenny. My sister and I ended up in what was known as Florida Children's Services. Fast forward to 1996 - I leave Jax for the Carolinas, where I retired in 2017. Sister and her husband lost their home to unscrupulous neighbors in August, 2018. 4th Judicial Circuit stated this was a 'civil case'. ALL (local and state) senior services were unresponsive and useless. Both diagnosed with dementia, brother in law was bed ridden. Brother in Law found dead on the floor of their dilapidated apartment in January, 2020 during a welfare check. ME stated he had been deceased for at least a week. Sister though he was 'asleep'. Sister was picked up a few weeks later under a Baker Act warrant and kept for 9 days, where she was found 'fully competent'. November, 2023: sister has lost her apartment and furnishings/possessions due to unknown reasons. Sister refuses to say where she is and I have exhausted all resources and have chosen to not pursue this matter further. July, 2023: I'm diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer after my condition was considered inoperable. Sent written pleas to social services, Senior Legal Services and a church my sister attended many years ago for consideration. My 50th high school school reunion won't happen this year - last reunion was the 35th. Mixed memories of my time in Jax and Florida.

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@12:58 To the left of the image, that neighborhood was where I grew up.

You failed to mention the college football legend who cratered his long and storied career around the 25-ish yard line during a Gator Bowl Classic. I was part of the halftime show for the 1978 Gator Bowl, and was seated on the *other* 25-yard line on the Ohio State sideline when Charlie Bauman of Clemson intercepted a pass then immediately was slugged by Woody Hayes. I can be seen at 1:16:43, while THE play is at 2:19:30. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGGkaoNubshqY5Y

Very cool, I actually graduated from a school off of McDuff avenue called Trinity Christian academy and then we move to off of Hammond boulevard and play football on the last senior year of my tenure there on the first year of play put the Trinity conquerors and our record was 8 and 0 and we got to play for the state championship for the first time 1973, wonderful memories especially blanding Drive-In that we went to see the movie Billy Jack, plus my dad Mack Murray ran against hands Chancellor for mayor of Jacksonville at that time as well

Had a lot of precious memories in Arlington back in the day!

My wife and her father worked at “Good Old Independent.”

As a 72 year old who grew up in Jacksonville I remember my Dad going on trips from Imeson, picking up my grandparents at Imeson, no jet bridges. My 1st plane trip was from Imeson on a Delta DC7. I remember when JIA opened, added the current airline counters after I moved away then new concourses. Only the center lobby remains of the original 1968 terminal. It's an easy airport to navigate after living in LA and using LAX.

Remember the Caravan Apartments on Atlantic near Southside Blvd? It was a crime infested ghetto. But I did live in Sin City of Arlington back in the 80's. I remember living two houses down from a house filled with Hells Angels members. That was Berry Ave.

Oh wow! We lived off of Morgana Rd from 1975 to 1985, then moved to Clay County

Great location for bright line

How about Sherwo0od Forest

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Another brilliant video ... many kind thanks for all your hard work.

Anta Madjiguene Ndiaye and Zephaniah Kingsley are my ancestors. Thanks for sharing your perspective and experience at Kingsley Plantation with you audience.

Many kind thanks. God bless you 🙏

Excellent background pursuant to the extraordinary Universal Marion building - which should of course be carefully preserved by whatever authority governs such landmark structures. In 1967, whilst on an extensive business trip to Jacksonville from the UK on behalf of my employer, our Jax-based American counterparts/colleagues treated me to an exceedingly elegant dinner at the beautifully-appointed roof-top 'Embers' ... a uniquely superb experience I shall never forget. We arrived at cocktail-hour, close to sun-down, and were duly-rewarded with jaw-dropping panoramic, imperceptibly revolving [an engineering feat!] 360° views - and the most spectacular sunset surely ever witnessed, slowly replaced by gradual darkness, revealing glittering lights of the impressively viable, very busy, enormous city, as far as the eye could see ... Thank you for providing interesting information regarding Jacksonville's glorious past.

Wonderful footage ... thank you very much indeed.

Extraordinary ... thank you very much indeed.

Thank you very much indeed.

Wonderful ... thank you very much indeed.

Absolutely brilliant ... thank you very much indeed.

Jake Godbold - Smells like money to me. The only thing that really smelled was the Glidden Paint factory. Yea, you can't compare the Backstreet Boys and N'Sync with the Beatles. Don't get me wrong BSB had there moment but no one referred to the time as Backstreet BoysAMania. You would have had to have lived through the time before, during the Beatlemania period to understand maybe.

I went to a couple proms in the old Robert Meyer hotel.

Wow that is so cool. I am at Westside high school 103rd St., Ave., Jacksonville and it’s very nice. And good student students there

I grew up on the Westside and the two theatres I remember most from the mid to late 60's was the Murray Hill Theater and the Edgewood Theater, both located on Edgewood Ave. Both usually had Saturday matinees of either horror or sci-fi movies, and sometimes comedy. My brother and I spend many Saturdays them.

Blast from the past! Loved 😍The Facts of Life and Three’s Company. Sad to see how America continue on an ugly and sad moral free-fall 💔

I remember seeing many Disney movies as well as Jaws at this theater just shortly before going to our families beach house for 2 weeks for the summer. I didn't do much swimming. I lived literally a few blocks from this shopping center. I'd ride my bike frequently up to Winn Dixie for mom for bread or milk as well as the old Skinners Dairy Drive-thru that we used to call the Butterfly) but that was once the newer part of the center had been built and it was Winn Dixie, Western Auto and JC Penny and a few others. S&S Cafeteria ended up where WD used to be (although I think there was something else there between the 2). I remember when Blanding went from 2 lane to 4 lane and the old Bamboo Luau was there on the Cedar River and Blanding. I also remember a Photo Bug(???) popping up in the parking lot and I also remember a pizza joint by the theater and a Fish & Chips in front of it. This was all before Confederate Point was constructed where my mother had a needlework and decoupage shop called Cricket Corner in that shopping center. The old Hyde Park bridge over Cedar Creek was still wooden as was the San Juan bridge. The street I was born and raised on doesn't seem to show up in the photo's or at least are hidden by trees. If you want to talk about other theaters in the area, the St. Johns theater (both that and Cedar Hills I remember being built), the old Edgewood Theater (which I think should have become an historic location but oh well) and Normandy Mall theaters. I remember when that was just Monkey Wards. The old Atlantic Mills was over there too by the Pic'n Save which I worked at as a teenager. Also the old Fox and Blanding drive-in theaters as well as the old Playboy drive-in out blanding by the old House of Bargains. Then came 295, the widening of Normandy, Old Middleburg (in front of Ed White), widening of Lane Ave, San Juan Ave., etc. I could go on and on. Oh, and don't forget the old 5-points theater and Union Station before becoming something insignificant.

Being a native of Jacksonville and growing up on the Westside, I've been to the Fox many times! I well remember seeing The Battle of the Bulge there and True Grit with my parents.

Excellent video.

I would give anything to see a picture of the inside of the regency square theater again.

Nice video on some history of the Gator Bowl stadium.

I am enjoying your pod casts on Jacksonville history. I was born and raised there, and I am a fellow history buff! I'm looking forward to your future pod casts!

I lived off Wilson Blvd near the intersection of Lane Ave, from 68 to 87! We moved to the Southside and I didn't move away from Jacksonville until 94. 1982 was a very nice year with good memories:))

I was working at the old University hospital on 8th. I was watching a future inmate in the trauma center. He got shot 8 times by the sheriffs department. Then all of a sudden the trauma alarm went off. The helo unit ran to the heli pad out front and with minutes a bunch of rescue vehicles arrived. There was alot of bloid on the floor. They called fir a cleaning crew to mop up all the blood. We found out after the helo came back about the shooting at gmac. I lost one of my neighbors from the shooter. She was to retire in 2 weeks and was planning on a long gacation with her husband. All those years working there and her dream never came true. What a shame.