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Florida Times-Union: 1904
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 6:58pm.
Florida circa 1904. "Jacksonville and St. Johns River." Plus the headquarters of the Florida Times-Union newspaper and much transportation-related signage. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Florida Times-Union moved out
Submitted by Larc on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 4:21pm.
Not later than 1921 this building at 136 W. Bay Street became the Atlantic Hotel. An article in The Florida Times-Union was about a character they referred to as the Human Fly, actually a Mr. Rockett. It reads in part:
"Mr. Rockett had assembled a crowd in downtown Jacksonville Jan. 9, 1921, on the premise of scaling the front of the Atlantic Hotel, a three-story building at Bay and Hogan streets."
Jacksonville got bypassed
Submitted by GlenJay on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 2:45pm.
It wouldn't be long before all those travelers and freight would hit Jacksonville and keep right on going. The city's days as a destination were doomed by the relentless push southward of Henry Flagler's railroads and hotels. By the time I grew up there in the 1950s, Jacksonville was more or less Atlanta-lite with a beach.
Jacksonville got "urban renewed"
Submitted by Thad Robinson on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 11:49am.
The St. Johns River is still there and more or less the same. The docks are gone, and any buildings that remain are unrecognizably altered. There are a few ghost signs visible here and there in downtown Jacksonville.
Signs of the times
Submitted by LeeSanders on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 12:24am.
I would have loved to have studied under some of the great sign painters of those times. Does anyone know if anything in this picture still exists?
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