09 April 2009

Florida Signs

On the way to the Keys. This is pretty far south. Florida has plenty of roads but they are still crowded and driven on by mostly maniacs.

Although the roads were crowded the beaches were not, at least in Fort Lauderdale. I don't know where the spring breakers were hanging out. This pale girl must have just arrived from somewhere in the cold north.

Turtles were allowed privacy but humans were encouraged to let it all hang out. Hmm.

These were the signs that we were looking for on the southeast side and on the Gulf side and also up around Tampa and Orlando.

These folks offered really good food in the Fort Lauderdale area, especially catfish, but other seafood as well.

This must be very boring. Lucrative I suppose but very boring. Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that because our medical specialists only do one thing they necessarily must do that one thing better than the others.

I found this sign, dated 1933, on an old stone filling station, on a back road near Ocala. The son was the father of the guy I talked too, a real Florida native, at least for 4 or 5 generations.


I found this near the driveway of a Special Forces paratrooper and Vietnam vet who now teaches in a middle school. The kids don't fool around with him. And he seems to get all the hard cases.

These are the Five Ringling Brothers of circus fame. The last and richest of the lot left his stuff to the state of Florida. It is on view in Sarasota. I had no idea that circuses could be so lucrative.

From an airboat, a part of the equipment used by John and Adam McCormick out of Ocala and Crystal River. They run a good business. Recommended.

This seemed like a good idea, especially during Lent. And as a fund-raiser for the school. I like the neon sign as part of the advertising. Churches in Florida do things differently. Though the awful architecture of the late 50s and 60s probably shouldn't be blamed on the churches themselves. I think it was something in the schools that did it.

That's right, we are on our way to a Braves baseball game right here in the middle of Disney's Wide World of Sports. They play all kinds of games here. I knew it was a high class place as I'm sure I saw a lacrosse team walk in with us.

I guess the manatees move slowly, so slowly they have trouble getting out of the way of the boats. I wonder if there are vets who specialize in propellor injuries to manatees. I wouldn't be surprised.

Maybe a sign of the difficult economic times even the big guys are suffering from.

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