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Dr. Robert G. Self, Col. U.S. Air Force, Retired. My dad. He passed away this weekend after a long period of declining health. Along with my mother he instilled an early love of the arts, travel, and exploration in my brother and I as we moved from one Air Force base to another around the […]
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Looking West down West Monroe Street towards Hemming Park and the Federal Courthouse. The multistory building sticking up from the block of buildings to the right is the Western Union building which now houses the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. The rest of the buildings in that block were demolished to make way for the […]
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Anyone out there remember what they had to drive in their drivers ed class? I have dim memories of a 70’s vintage Vega with no AC and a standard transmission. Students at Paxon H.S. in the early 1960’s apparently had access to a couple of new VW Beetles compliments of Jacksonville’s Brundage Motors. Don’t know […]
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Newly cleared of docks and warehouses jutting into the river from Jacksonville’s Northbank along the St. Johns River the 1950’s waterfront now featured a seawall, fill and a fresh asphalt to create a parking lot just South of the Main Street Bridge. The Jacksonville Landing now occupies part of this property.
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Anyone want to take a guess as to the current cumulative value of the cars in this photo? This lineup of late 50’s-early 60’s Porsche offerings was photographed at the Brumos dealership located at 1444 North Main Street in the early 1960’s. In the building’s window the Volkswagen logo is identified with Brundage Motors Inc. […]
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The Gulf Life Insurance building when it was located on Church Street behind the St. James Building. By looking at the amazing cars on the street I would date this in the late 1940’s. This building is now part of the First Baptist church complex. In 1966 Gulf Life built the Gulf Life Tower, now […]
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“Massey Dodge Garage, on West State Street (building still standing), this photo was taken for a slide that would be used on TV, WMBR, Channel 4, 1949. For that time it was the finest garage in this area. Massey had 4 dealerships in our city.” LS
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“This photo is of Peter Gregg, auto racer of Jacksonville. He had just started his dealership on Philips Highway and was being interviewed on radio.” LS Legendary Jacksonville race car driver Peter Gregg (third from right) became the owner of Brumos Porsche after purchasing the dealership in 1965 following previous owner Hubert Brundage’s death in […]
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“A Bad Accident. No one was killed and no one was hurt, no one had seat belts on either. It all happened on a trip from England to Jacksonville, Florida. These cars were on a ship and they got into a bad storm. Result, the cars broke away from their chains and bounced together and […]
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The shiny new Baptist Hospital building shortly after opening in the early 1950’s. Only a portion of this original structure still remains as the complex grows, and that wing is scheduled to be torn down in the not too distant future.
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