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Here’s Orange Bowl Lanes in Kissimmee. This ten lane spot has been seeing strikes since 1961. Though it’s on the busy Irlo Bronson Highway teeming with tourist spots, this place stays packed. Right now there must be 150+ people in here and more coming in. The bowling clerk tells me this is pretty typical for a Saturday night. No financial gutter balls bring thrown here.
Here’s the abandoned Miller’s Lakeside Motel in Intercession City in Osceola County. There are so many of these across our state. More in communities that have struggled as Intercession City has over the decades. This far western community of Osceola County was once a magnet for tornadoes back in the ’70s and ’80s. There is still a healthy residential community, but wealth escapes the vast majority. The nearest grocery store is east in Kissimmee. This a couple convenience stores stay busy. When US 17-92 was the only viable link between Daytona Beach and Tampa this area thrived. Since I-4 opened in the ’60s this motel tells the sad plight of the area.
Swampy Live: at the Marion County Springs Festival with, Dunnellon City Councilwoman, Penny Fleeger and, Springs Festival board member/super volunteer, Lois Braukmuller.
This watercolor painting by Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. will be in the silent auction at the Marion County Springs Festival tomorrow, Saturday the 24th, at Rainbow Springs State Park. The educational and music filled event runs from 10am to 4pm. Come on out and maybe you can nab this for 20 bucks! 🙂
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Stopped at the original Gabriel’s Sub Shop in Orlando and just learned that two weeks ago Paul Gabriel died. He started the Orlando institution back in 1958 on Edgewater Drive in the area of College Park in Orlando.
Over the years other franchises opened. Eventually the Gabriel left he original location to move into a former ‘Chicken Unlimited’ building, also on Edgewater Drive.
The original still thrives in the ever changing area of College Park. Paul Gabriel had left a legacy carried on by his family that will never be forgotten.